A Widow for One Year - Hardcover

Irving, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375501371 ISBN 13: 9780375501371

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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Book by Irving John

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Twenty years after The World According to Garp, the author chronicles the life of a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of her siblings' deaths and her parents' adultery, who only finds love after motherhood and widowhood. 300,000 first printing.

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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.  By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life.  When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.

The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career.  She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.

A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.  She's about to fall in love for the first time.

Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.  Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375501371
• ISBN 13: 9780375501371
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 537