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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307592095
“One can easily imagine the ladies of “The View” grilling
Washington journalist Carol Ross Joynt about the financial and
emotional soap opera chronicled in Innocent Spouse, her
memoir of love, death, betrayal, survival, re-invention and major
name-dropping.”–The Washington Post
“INNOCENT SPOUSE does a great job of highlighting a
huge tax problem and
is entertaining to boot. A page-turning read about
unexpected reversals of fortune.”–Forbes
“There are many memoirs by women who don’t know their husbands
until they die…but none has the brutal irony of “Innocent
Spouse…What makes this memoir exceptional is Carol Joynt’s
unending honesty. She doesn’t spare herself — on many pages, she
really does come off like an idiot…But she perseveres. She
learns. She gets it right.”–Jesse Kornbluth, HeadButler.com
“A page-turning, name-dropping memoir…”-InStyle
“When a husband dies suddenly he often leaves his widow holding the
bag. The choice is to crumble or carry on. Carol Joynt not only
carried on but she came through victorious.”–Joan Rivers
“Carol Ross Joynt is more than an Innocent Spouse; her
indomitable spirit prizes through in this compelling memoir of
growth and accomplishment. In the flood of widow memoirs,
hers will stand out as a story of overcoming financial ruin,
professional and personal deceptions, as well as losing the man she
believed was the love of her life.”–Sally Ryder Brady, author of
A Box of Darkness
“For those who read The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve and
wondered how a loving husband could possibly keep a secret life
hidden from his family, wonder no more: Carol Joynt
reveals in sad and searing detail how it can happen and
the price she, as a wife, had to pay to save herself
and her young son.”–bestselling author Kitty Kelley
“A searing personal journey where the pages fall away from one’s
hand like meat from a bone. Ms. Joynt takes on her life with both a
hatchet and a scalpel and is unafraid to turn an unerring spotlight
on herself, examining the flaws and mistakes from every angle. Yet
what emerges from this fascinating story is a courageous woman who
is a survivor and above all else a mother who would do anything for
her child.”–bestselling author David Baldacci
“Think you know your husband? Read this book. Carol
Joynt takes us on a harrowing roller-coaster ride through a system
that viewed her as guilty until she proved her innocence. A
riveting, inspirational account of one woman’s dreamy life turned
nightmare and her ultimate triumph. I couldn’t put it
down.”–bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock
“An utterly compelling story of spousal deception, postmortem
forgiveness, how NOT to run the hottest restaurant in DC, and the
enduring power of love. You will read this memoir in one night,
pages flying and heart racing.”– Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of
Mommy Wars and the New York Times bestseller Crazy Love
“An honest telling of a woman betrayed by her husband
whom she had loved and her determination to protect herself and her
son.”–Publishers Weekly
“Engagingly written. . . .Very
readable…inspiring.”–Booklist
“Excellent recounting of the author’s lost decade, during
which she rebuilt her life, became self-sufficient and found peace
following her husband’s deceit.”–Kirkus
death, you found out he was keeping secrets? Big secrets. Secrets
that could cost you millions of dollars—and brand you as a
criminal. Innocent Spouse is an eye-opening memoir that asks
a provocative and disturbing question: Is it possible to really
know and trust someone, even your spouse?
Carol Ross Joynt was a successful television producer in
Washington, D.C. Her husband, Howard, owned Nathans, a
legendary restaurant in Georgetown. From an outsider’s perspective,
Carol and Howard lived a fairy-tale life—spending weekends at their
Chesapeake Bay estate, rubbing shoulders with New York’s and
Washington’s elite, and raising their beloved son, Spencer. But
everything changed with Howard’s sudden death when Spencer was only
five years old.
Like any widow, Carol was devastated because she lost the love of
her life and her son’s father. But soon Carol had much more to cope
with than her grief and new life as a single parent. As she was
forced to take over her family’s legal and financial
responsibilities, as well as run Howard’s restaurant on her own,
Carol discovered that her husband had secrets, and one of them, an
almost $3 million debt to the IRS, threatened to derail her entire
life. And even though Carol didn’t know anything about the tax
fraud—finances had always been Howard’s department—no one cared. As
his surviving spouse, legally, Carol was responsible.
As Carol picks up the pieces of her fractured life and copes with
her sadness and anger, she learns to become something she’d never
been before: self-sufficient. Poignant, eye-opening, and at times
heartbreaking, Innocent Spouse is ultimately an inspiring
story of strength and newfound independence in the face of loss and
betrayal.
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