Published Blunders: Robert Goolrick and an Unreliable Publisher
A Reliable Wife is the national bestselling debut novel of Robert Goolrick. It was published in 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing. I enjoyed the novel and would have read it straight through if I had had the luxury. It was at once suspenseful and predictable. To any of you interested in a story of love, redemption and simple wickedness I would recommend this book.
The one thing I didn’t like, or more specifically, the three things I didn’t like, were…you guessed it! Typos! I found three of them upon the first read. Who knows what a more detailed look would reveal. I’ll list one of the three. It occurs on page 264 in the second paragraph:
It wasn’t enough to want all women; he wanted Catherine be all women to him.
Whether this is Goolrick’s blunder and it went uncorrected by the proofreader or someone else deleted the word “to” between “Catherine” and “be” we may never know. But this much I know is true, someone allowed this blunder to make it into print.
