Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.Ī Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. Subjects Trending Library Explorer Lists Collections K-12 Student Library Random Book Advanced Search Widow for One Year × Close. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. A Widow for One Year by John Irving, May 5, 1998, Random House Audio edition, in English. When we first meet her-on Long Island, in the summer of 1958-Ruth is only four. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character-a “difficult” woman. This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking-it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR: A NOVEL (AUTOGRAPHED) by Irving, John Used very good Hardcover Condition Used - Very Good Binding Hardcover ISBN 13 9780676970807 ISBN 10 067697080X Quantity Available 2 Seller ThriftBooks Seattle, Washington, United States Seller rating : Description: Alfred A.

The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career.

“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking-it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.”

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