β Scribed by Stephen Dixon
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This prose fiction novel, written by literary prizewinner Stephen Dixon, replicates the consciousness of a jilted man.Stephen Dixon, one of America's great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years -- His Wife Leaves Him , a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly simple as its title: A man, Martin, thinks about the loss of his wife, Gwen. In Dixon's hands, however, this straightforward premise becomes a work of such complexity that it no longer appears to be words on pages so much as life itself. Dixon, like all great writers, captures consciousness. Stories matter here, and the writer understands how people tell them and why they go on retelling them, for stories, finally, may be all that Martin has of Gwen. Reminders of their shared past, some painful, some hilarious, others blissful and sensual, appear and reappear in the present. Stories made from memories...
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