The Good Wife (31 page)
Authors: Stewart O'Nan
NOVELS
THE NIGHT COUNTRY
WISH YOU WERE HERE
EVERYDAY PEOPLE
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING
A WORLD AWAY
THE SPEED QUEEN
THE NAMES OF THE DEAD
SNOW ANGELS
STORIES
IN THE WALLED CITY
NONFICTION
THE CIRCUS FIRE
FAITHFUL, with Stephen King
AS EDITOR
THE VIETNAM READER
ON WRITERS AND WRITING, by John Gardner
Stewart O’Nan’s novels include
Snow Angels, The Night Country
, and A
Prayer for the Dying.
He is also the author of the nonfiction books
The Circus Fire
and, with Stephen King, the bestselling
Faithful
.
Granta
named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Connecticut.
Snow Angels, The Night Country
, and A
Prayer for the Dying.
He is also the author of the nonfiction books
The Circus Fire
and, with Stephen King, the bestselling
Faithful
.
Granta
named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Connecticut.
The author would like to extend his heartfelt thanks to:
Alison Coleman and Nancy Lee Warner, for helping me understand what families on the outside deal with day after day, year after year.
Lynn Anderson at Auburn Correctional Facility, for her insight into the Family Reunion Program there.
Susan Eaton, Gillian Harris, William E. “Easy” Waters of the Osborne Association, Ed Muller, Heidi Mercado at New York Inmate Families, and Ray Hill at KPFT, for giving me privileged glimpses behind closed doors and pointing me in the right direction.
Asha Bandele, Ted Conover, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Ken McClane and Robert O’Connor for their writings about life inside and outside of the New York State Department of Corrections, and, closer to home, John Edgar Wideman for
Brothers
and Keepers.
Brothers
and Keepers.
Tompkins County judge Jack Sherman, for his thorough laying out of the legal process.
Paul Cody and Pete Wetherbee, not only for donating their sharp eyes as readers but for sharing their experiences teaching inside Auburn.
David Gernert, Lamar Herrin, Trudy O’Nan and Luis Urrea, for their faith and their smart and honest judgments.
Stephen and Owen King, for listening and providing such wise counsel.
And finally, Jonathan Galassi and Lorin Stein, for their concern, their editorial skills and their patience.
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First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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eISBN 9781429976923
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O’Nan, Stewart, 1961—
The good wife / Stewart O’Nan.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-42501-5
EAN 978-0-312-42501-2
1. Prisoners’ spouses—Fiction. 2. Separation (Psychology)—Fiction. 3. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 4. Married women—Fiction. I
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Title.
.
Title.
PS3565.N316G67 2005
813’.54—dc22
2004053247
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