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050	0	0	_aPR6072.I333 _bI57 2002
082	1		_aFIC VIC _2
100	1		_aVickers, Salley
245	1	0	_aInstances of the number 3 _c/ Salley Vickers
246	3		_aInstances of the number three
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, 2002, c2001
300			_a305 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aWhen a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (not even women) conform to the attitudes generally expected." Indeed, in this ironic and witty novel nothing is quite as we expect to find it. Telling the story of Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater, Vickers brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years - and continue to reverberate after secretive, generous, sexually prodigal Peter Hansome dies suddenly in a car accident, on his way home from an assignation with yet another lover, about whom neither woman knows. While Frances, a London art dealer and sometime artists' model, gradually makes friends with the older, Shakespeare-loving Bridget, these two unconventional women start to learn the whole truth (or almost the whole truth) about the man whose death brought them together and whose ghost watches over them still.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTraffic accidents _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFemale friendship _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMistresses _x-Fiction
650		4	_aWidows _v--Fiction
650		4	_aGrief _v-Fiction
651		4	_aLondon (England) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
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