"A Widow for One Year" closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a 41-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 multi-layered 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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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.USA TodayIn 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 shes about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.Praise for A Widow for One YearCompelling . . . By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments. . . . A testament to one of lifes most difficult lessons: In the end, you just have to find a way to keep going.San Francisco Examiner-ChronicleA sprawling 19th-century production, chock full of bizarre coincidences, multiple plot lines, lengthy digressions, and stories within stories. . . . An engaging and often affecting fable, a fairy tale that manages to be old-fashioned and modern all at once.The New York Times[Irvings] characters can beguile us onto thin ice and persuade us to dance there. His instinctive mark is the moral choice stripped bare, and his aim is impressive. Whats more, theres hardly a writer alive who can match his control of the omniscient point of view.The Washington Post Book WorldIn the sprawling, deeply felt A Widow for One Year, John Irving has delivered his best novel since The World According to Garp. . . . Like a warm bath, its a great pleasure to immerse yourself in.Entertainment WeeklyJohn Irving is arguably the American Balzac, or perhaps our Dickensa rip-roaring storyteller whose intricate plot machinery is propelled by good old-fashioned greed, foolishness and passion.The NationPowerful . . . a masterpiece.St. Louis Post-Dispatch 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780345424716
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