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YORKTOWN, N.Y., Jun 8, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Emily Hanlon-Tarasov, author of the British best-seller "Petersburg," knocked her husband unconscious in their Yorktown home during an argument this week.
The White Plains (N.Y.) Journal reports that Hanlon-Tarasov threw a telephone book at her husband and hit him in the head with it while the two were arguing Monday -- two weeks short of their 40th wedding anniversary. He lost consciousness for several minutes, the newspaper said.
Police charged Hanlon-Tarasov, 61, with second-degree assault, despite her husband's requests to dismiss the charges.
"A few things began flying at the wall, and one of them was a telephone book," her husband Ned Tarasov said, "and unfortunately my head moved into the space that the book was flying."
Hanlon-Tarasov blamed the argument on stress over her recent stroke, and comments her husband made about her sick mother.
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