| A Widow for One Year Contributor(s): Irving, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345424719 ISBN-13: 9780345424716 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98096725 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.81" W x 8.45" (0.99 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. |