01533nam a22002297a 4500 20260131095221.0 211011b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0375501371 Aloy English 23 813.54 IRVW John Irving 253369 Widow for one year A novel New York Random House 1998 xiv,537p HB 24x16cm $27.95 $ $27.95 Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a 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 crucial time in her life.When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruths life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth 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. Women novelists--Fiction 1157 Single mothers--Fiction 1158 Widows--Fiction 1159 ddc GF 216572 216572 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2021-10-11 0 813.54 IRVW GF02387 2021-10-11 00:00:00 0.00 2021-10-11 GF