The release date for the English version of 'A Widow for One Year' by
John Irving is Jun 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"Ruth Cole, then four years old, was sleeping on the bottom bunk of her bunk bed when she heard her parents making love—it came from their bedroom."
This line introduces John Irving's eighth book, A Widow for One Year, which tells the tragic tale of a family. Ruth Cole is a multifaceted, often conflicting figure who is referred to be "difficult." She is not traditionally "nice," by any means, but her memory will live on.
Three sections, each centered on a pivotal period in Ruth's life, make up her tale. Ruth is just four years old when we first meet her in the summer of 1958 on Long Island.
Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her writing career when the second window into her life opens in the autumn of 1990. She has strong cause to doubt her ability to judge men.
When A Widow for One Year ends in the fall of 1995, Ruth Cole is a 41-year-old mother and widow. She's going to experience her first love.
A multifaceted love tale of incredible emotional energy, A Widow for One Year is both richly humorous and profoundly unsettling. It's a fantastic work about time passing and the unwavering nature of loss, as well as ribald and sexual.
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