Tin Wife Author:Joe Flaherty The world of this explosive novel is a man's world, a cop's world, where immutable values and rock-solid sensibilities are all part of being Irish and growing up in Brooklyn. But the protagonist is a woman–a cop's wife (a tin wife) who battles her family, rails against the stereotypes of her restrictive environment and eventual... more »ly triumphs by outwitting the police department and assuming control of her life.
Joe Flaherty has charted the soul and sensibilities of a woman whose well-ordered working-class world unravels when Vietnam takes her son, women's liberation punches holes in her reality, and her husband dies mysteriously of a heart attack while on duty. Tough, street-smart, daring and yet vulnerable, the complex heroine of Tin Wife combines the qualities of Scarlett O'Hara and Studs Lonigan in this unique portrayal of a very twentieth-century woman.« less