A Widow For One Year by John Irving

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: John Irving
• Title: A Widow For One Year
• Publisher: ‎ Ballantine Books; First Ballantine Books Trade Edition (April 1999)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 553 pages
• ISBN-10: 0345424719
• ISBN-13: 978-0345424716
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.01 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.2 x 1.2 x 7.9 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Ballantine Books Trade Edition

Synopsis:

A Widow for One Year, published twenty years ago. It is a compelling story about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive.

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. Marion also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.

By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become a renowned author – 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. Ruth distrusts her judgement in men, for good reason; by no means is she conventionally "nice".

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.

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.

About the Author:

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story "Interior Space."

In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules-a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com