Book Details
⚡️Book Title : A Widow for One Year
⚡Book Author : John Irving
⚡Page : 576 pages
⚡Published June 1st 2004 by Ballantine Books (first published 1998)
A Widow for One Year - One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemakingit was coming from her parents bedroom. This sentence opens John Irvings ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory charactera difficult woman. By no means is she conventionally nice, but she will never be forgotten. Ruths story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet heron Long Island, in the summer of 1958Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruths 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. 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. Shes 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. Source: john-irving.com
A Widow for One Year
One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemakingit was coming from her parents bedroom. This sentence opens John Irvings ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory charactera difficult woman. By no means is she conventionally nice, but she will never be forgotten. Ruths story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet heron Long Island, in the summer of 1958Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruths 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. 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. Shes 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. Source: john-irving.com
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