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The Watery Part of the World : a Novel by Michael Parker is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Watery Part of the World : a Novel about?
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poiso
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Parker
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616200008
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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