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Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman-- and a faithful wife for twenty-two years--has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth. By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry, impulsive, often self-contradictory, unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career, and she distrusts her judgement in men, for good reason. Five years later, at forty-one, Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother. Ruth's child is the same age Ruth was when her mother left her. Now Ruth is about to fall in love for the first time. "A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both richly comic and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
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A Widow for One Year, John Irving
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- A Widow for One Year
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Seal books
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN10
- 0770428991
- ISBN13
- 9780770428990
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Love, Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, USA, American Literature, Death, Realistic Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adapted for Film, Marriage, America, Loss, Psychological novels, Genealogy, Writers, Breakup, separation, Infidelity, Prostitution, Amsterdam, Marital Crisis, Widows, Death of a Child, Death of a Sibling
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- A Widow for One Year
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman-- and a faithful wife for twenty-two years--has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth. By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry, impulsive, often self-contradictory, unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career, and she distrusts her judgement in men, for good reason. Five years later, at forty-one, Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother. Ruth's child is the same age Ruth was when her mother left her. Now Ruth is about to fall in love for the first time. "A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both richly comic and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.