The Man Who Loved His Wife
By Vera Caspary
1966
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3.44
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240
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When Elaine and Fletcher marry, their relationship is passionate. She is a beautiful model; he is a loud businessman, nineteen years her elder. Then he is stricken by illness, which leaves him voiceless and impotent. Intent on ending his own life, and forbidding her to love anyone else, he plots his suicide to look like murder. Jealousy knows no bounds.
Avg Rating
3.44
Number of Ratings
66
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Author
Vera Caspary
Author · 9 books
Vera Caspary, an acclaimed American writer of novels, plays, short stories and screenplays, was born in Chicago in 1899. Her writing talent shone from a young age and, following the death of her father, her work became the primary source of income for Caspary and her mother. A young woman when the Great Depression hit America, Caspary soon developed a keen interest in Socialist causes, and joined the Communist Party under a pseudonym. Although she soon left the party after becoming disillusioned, Caspary's leftist leanings would later come back to haunt her when she was greylisted from Hollywood in the 1950s for Communist sympathies. Caspary spent this period of self-described 'purgatory' alternately in Europe and America with her husband, Igee Goldsmith, in order to find work. After Igee's death in 1964, Caspary returned permanently to New York, where she wrote a further eight titles. Vera Caspary died in 1987 and is survived by a literary legacy of strong independent female characters.
