The Good Husband

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As a young woman the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then to everyone's surprise she married Francis Lake a mild midwestern seminarian who has devoted his life to taking care of his charismatic wife. Now Magda's grave illness puts their marriage to its ultimate test. Though facing her "Final Examination" Magda continues to arouse her visitors with compelling thoughts and questions. Into this provocative atmosphere comes Alice Henry retreating from family tragedy and a crumbling marriage to novelist Hugo Henry. But is it the incandescence of Magda's ideas that draws Alice or the secret of "the good marriage" that she is desperate to discover? For Alice Hugo Francis and Magda will learn that the most ideal relationship--even a perfect marriage--doesn't come without a price....