THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF


Copyright © 2008 by Alex Witchel


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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Witchel, Alex.

The spare wife/by Alex Witchel.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book.”

1. Divorced women—Fiction. 2. Socialites—Fiction. 3. Upper-class families—Fiction. 4. Rich people—Fiction. 5. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 6. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.I85S63 2008

813'.6—dc22                                              2007040320


This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.


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