The Resource Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel, Karma Brown
Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel, Karma Brown
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The item Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel, Karma Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
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- Summary
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- A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house
- Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house, she is captivated by a vintage cookbook found buried in a box in the old home's basement, and by the cookbook's previous owner. As Alice cooks her way through 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch's past, she realizes that within the cookbook's pages are clues about Nellie's life-- including a unsent letters penned to her mother. Uncovering a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage, Alice begins to take control of her life-- and protect herself with a few secrets of her own. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Note
- Place of publication taken from publisher's website
- Isbn
- 9781524744939
- Label
- Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel
- Title
- Recipe for a perfect wife
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Karma Brown
- Subject
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- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMoving, Household
- Mystery fiction
- trueNew York (State)
- Patriarchy
- Patriarchy -- History -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueSecrets
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueSuburbs
- trueWriter's block
- trueCanadian fiction
- Cookbooks
- Cookbooks -- Fiction
- trueCooking
- Cooking -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Women
- trueFamily violence
- Fiction
- History
- trueHomemakers
- Houses -- Maintenance and repair -- Fiction
- Housewives
- Housewives -- Fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Imagination
- Imagination -- Fiction
- trueLetter writing
- trueMarital conflict
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house
- Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house, she is captivated by a vintage cookbook found buried in a box in the old home's basement, and by the cookbook's previous owner. As Alice cooks her way through 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch's past, she realizes that within the cookbook's pages are clues about Nellie's life-- including a unsent letters penned to her mother. Uncovering a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage, Alice begins to take control of her life-- and protect herself with a few secrets of her own. -- adapted from jacket
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10831659
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brown, Karma
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.4.B758536
- LC item number
- R43 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Housewives
- Imagination
- Patriarchy
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Cookbooks
- Imagination
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Women
- Cookbooks
- Housewives
- Imagination
- Patriarchy
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Married people
- Houses
- Cooking
- Label
- Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel, Karma Brown
- Note
- Place of publication taken from publisher's website
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524744939
- Lccn
- 2019013020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1091293574
- Label
- Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel, Karma Brown
- Note
- Place of publication taken from publisher's website
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524744939
- Lccn
- 2019013020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1091293574
Subject
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Married people -- Fiction
- trueMoving, Household
- Mystery fiction
- trueNew York (State)
- Patriarchy
- Patriarchy -- History -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueSecrets
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueSuburbs
- trueWriter's block
- trueCanadian fiction
- Cookbooks
- Cookbooks -- Fiction
- trueCooking
- Cooking -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Women
- trueFamily violence
- Fiction
- History
- trueHomemakers
- Houses -- Maintenance and repair -- Fiction
- Housewives
- Housewives -- Fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Imagination
- Imagination -- Fiction
- trueLetter writing
- trueMarital conflict
Genre
- Mystery fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistory
- Canadian fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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