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040			_cAloy
041			_aEnglish
082			_223 _a813.54 _bIRVW
100			_aJohn Irving _9253369
245			_aWidow for one year _bA novel
260			_aNew York _bRandom House _c1998
300			_axiv,537p _bHB _c24x16cm
365			_b$27.95 _c$ _d$27.95
520			_aRuth 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.
650			_a Women novelists--Fiction _91157
650			_a Single mothers--Fiction _91158
650			_aWidows--Fiction _91159
942			_2ddc _cGF
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