The mere wife
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374208431 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 0374208433
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Physical Description:
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regular print
308 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Mothers and sons -- Fiction |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | FIC HEA (Text) | 35146002077915 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | FIC HEA (Text) | 35140100040321 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | Hea (Text) | 32665002120279 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Terrace Public Library | HEA (Text) | 35151001069947 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | HEA (Text) | 33923006001741 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A modern retelling of Beowulf recasts classic themes from the perspectives of the attackers and finds a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran navigating dark realities to protect the sons they love. By the best-selling author of Aerie. - Baker & Taylor
A modern retelling of "Beowulf" recasts classic themes from the perspectives of the attackers and finds a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran navigating dark realities to protect the sons they love. - McMillan Palgrave
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothersâa housewife and a battle-hardened veteranâfight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife.
From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildingsâhigh and gabledâand the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outsideâin lawns and on playgroundsâwildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hallâs periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights.
For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didnât want Gren, didnât plan Gren, and doesnât know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Danaâs and Willaâs worlds collide.