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LEAD: Polygamy,
the practice of a man having more than one wife, is illegal in both
Canada and the United States. Despite this, there are pockets of
Fundamentalist Mormons who cling to the practice. Novelist David
Ebershoff's new book The 19th
Wife
tells the story of two women in polygamous marriages separated by
more than one hundred years.
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by Random House."