A Widow For One Year

by John Irving

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'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'

This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's also about to fall in love for the first time...

  • ISBN10 055299796X
  • ISBN13 9780552997966
  • Publish Date 1 June 1999 (first published 1 April 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Black Swan
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 656
  • Language English