Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Mrs. Kimble, (Paperback)

from MarkMeg

There are three Mrs. Kimbles. The first-Birdie became drunk-ended with a black neighbor. With Birdie Ken was a minister. With Joan, who died of breast cancer, he went into real estate and ended up with the estates of both Joan's father and her uncle. The third wife was Dinah, who was the wisest a...

from tangledthread

Mrs. Kimble refers to three different women, the serial wives of philanderer, Ken Kimble. The book begins with Ken's death, then jumps back to the beginning of the story of his first abandoned wife, Birdie. Birdie has been left alone in Richmond, Va. to raise two small children with no means of s...

from yourotherleft

Jennifer Haigh's debut novel features the three distinctive stories of women who are wooed by and marry the same man. We meet Ken's first wife, Birdie, just as he has abandoned her for a love affair with a student at the college where he is a dean. Birdie herself fell for the Reverend Kimble when...

from burnit99

The debut novel by a terrific writer I've followed ever since reading "The Condition", which I still see as her best work. This one is about the three women who in turn married Ken Kimble, an emotional con-man with an empty desert of a soul. Most of this book struck me with its bleakness, as Ken ...

from booksandbosox

Ken Kimble is a bit of a ladies' man. His story is told over a number of years through his three wives - Birdie, a woman who mistakenly believes he will return to her, Joan, an heiress with a devastating secret, and Dinah, a woman who has too often been relegated to "behind-the- scenes". Each wom...