Publisher's Synopsis
Stephen Dixon, one of America's great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years. His Wife Leaves Him is a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. Reminders of their shared past, some painful, some hilarious, others blissful and sensual, appear and reappear in the present. Story by story, he accounts for himself, good and bad, moments of grace, occasions for disappointment, promises and arguments.