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Nine Wives
Contributor(s): Elish, Dan (Author)
ISBN: 0312339437     ISBN-13: 9780312339432
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $18.89  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2005
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Annotation: Elish pens an inventive and original story of a 33-year-old songwriter who, having watched everyone he knows get married during a single year, takes a look at his life and realizes he's not having as much fun as he thought.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2005043200
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Henry Mann is a 32-year-old bachelor who has spent the last few years watching everyone he knows get married. After the most recent wedding, where an intoxicated Henry proposes to no less than three women (including the rabbi), it dawns on him that being single isn't that much fun after all.

Nine Wives is an inventive, original, funny, and big-hearted novel, a book I will recommend to anyone interested in good fiction.--Tim O'Brien, National Book Award-winning author of July, July

Dan Elish has written an extremely funny book.--Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover
Dan Elish has created a Portnoy for the 21st century.--David Eddie, author of Chump Change

Henry Mann wages battle between the real world and the imagined one with equal parts goofiness and suaveness. A very charming novel.--Antonya Nelson, author of Female Trouble

Enough to put Bridget Jones to shame.--Helen Schulman, author of P.S.

In a world where Sex and the City and Bergdorff Blondes tell us what we think we need to know about relationships, Elish has created a world far more real without stinting on the wit, insight, or hilarity.--Jonathan Rabb, author of The Book of Q

Dan Elish at last shows women what lurks within the minds of men.--Helen Ellis, author of Eating the Cheshire Cat

I read Nine Wives while Dan and I were dating. I didn't speak to him for a week, but I married him anyway.--Andrea Elish


Contributor Bio(s): Elish, Dan: - Dan Elish is a critically acclaimed young adult novelist who has also written for television and theater. His books include Nine Wives. He lives in New York City with his wife and young daughter.