The American Wife

by Elaine Ford

Of Elaine Ford's novel, Missed Connections, the Washington Post wrote that it is a work "of small episodes, of precise sentences, of unusual clarity." That same clarity proves an unsettling force in Ford's stories, where precision of prose often belies uncertainties hidden beneath. In the title piece, an American woman in England, embroiled in a relationship doomed to fail, discovers how little she understands about her own desires...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472116207
• ISBN13: 9780472116201
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"