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A Widow for One Year : A Novel (Paperback)

de John Irving (Author)
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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.

Ruth's 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 Ruth's 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. She's 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 Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He is the author of nine novels, among them The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Son of the Circus. Mr. Irving is married and has three sons; he lives in Toronto and in southern Vermont.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 A book that changed my outlook on life, Fév 2 2005
Par Un client
This review is from: A Widow for One Year (Paperback)
This book is for sure an intellectual read as well as hilarious. The characters of Eddie and Hannah (especially their trip together stuck in a car) always made me laugh. An exciting read as well as interesting! It really is a certain type of book for a certain type of person. If you are very proper, don't read this book!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Irving's wise Widow., Avril 17 2004
Par G. Merritt (Boulder, CO) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: A Widow for One Year (Hardcover)
John Irving's 537-page novel tells the emotionally compelling story of its "melancholic main character" (p. 389), Ruth Cole, in three parts. The novel opens in 1958, when 4-year-old Ruth interrupts her 39-year-old mother, Marion Cole, having sex with a 16-year-old boy, Eddie O'Hare. It was a "sad time" (p. 54) in her parents' marriage. While the Coles suffer through the psychological impact of losing their two sons in an automobile accident, Eddie is unaware that he has been specifically hired by Marion's alcoholic husband, Ted, for the purpose of becoming Marion's lover for the summer, and that "it would have lifelong results" (p. 8) for all four characters. The Coles' personal tragedy first leads Marion to abandon her womanizing husband and infant daughter, and eventually leads Ted to commit suicide. Not surprisingly, Part Two of Irving's novel finds Ruth at age 36 attempting to cope with the emotional baggage from her childhood misfortunes, and Eddie at age 48 still longing for Marion. By 1990, both Ruth and Eddie have become established writers. However, it is not until 1995 and Part Three when, at age 41, Ruth is able to escape the depths of her lifelong misery by discovering love, and at age 53, when Eddie is finally able to confront his lifelong connection with Marion. Although Irving treats sexuality rather frankly throughout his unforgettable novel, ultimately his novel transcends the sexual realm and becomes a story about surviving personal misfortune and experiencing the healing powers of love. Irving brings his characters to life in a well-drawn story. It won't take a year--but more likely less than a week--for serious readers to discover the real wisdom in Irving's WIDOW.

G. Merritt

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5.0étoiles sur 5 My favorite John Irving novel!, Mars 26 2004
Par CoffeeGurl (MA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: A Widow for One Year: A Novel (Paperback)
A Widow for One Year has become my favorite John Irving novel. Many of his other works, while enjoyable, have put me off a little because the characters and plot are a bit over the top. This offering, while imaginative and entertaining, never gets to that stage. It's a big novel, spanning about forty years and has a satisfying, yet never hokey or corny ending. The characters, of course, are a bit quirky in their way, but said quirkiness is somehow more believable than in Irving's other novels. The story is a lot of fun and, because most of the characters are writers, allows Irving to explain and comment on the writing process. I sometimes felt he was answering his own critics while discussing the criticism of his character-writers. However, he has fun with the whole thing and never takes it too seriously, which is part of what makes this novel fun and enthralling. A Widow for One Year is a human story about loss and how far some of us would go for love. Highly recommended...
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4.0étoiles sur 5 If You Liked the BOOK...
Keep an Eye out for The Motion Picture, Titled "A Door In The Floor",currently in Production,Starring Jeff Bridges..No release date set yet,as of May 2003.
Publié le Mai 24 2003 par Jim Carpenter

1.0étoiles sur 5 I advice Irving and his readers to read some real literature
This is my first John Irving book, and even if it's not rated as his best one, I won't burn my fingers on another one. Read more
Publié le Avril 29 2003 par Dwash

5.0étoiles sur 5 Irving speaks to his readers
My take on this book is that Irving is speaking to us via the main character, Ruth Cole. She reminds us in many instances that an author is not to be so easily judged by what... Read more
Publié le Nov. 13 2002

2.0étoiles sur 5 Sadly disappointing...........
I was recommended this book by a close friend, who is an avid reader of "titillating" books, and she mentioned that this one had a definite erotic edge. Read more
Publié le Juil 16 2002

1.0étoiles sur 5 Irving at his worst
After reading Hotel New Hampshire and A Prayer for Owen Meany (one of the best books I have EVER read), Widow for One Year was completely dissapointing. Read more
Publié le Jui 21 2002

2.0étoiles sur 5 How interesting to condense so many stories into one novel..
Why, why, why Mr. Irving would you write in such vivid detail about one summer and then scurry through the next forty years? Read more
Publié le Mai 9 2002 par Cindi Getek

2.0étoiles sur 5 A Widow for One Year
This book captured my attention at the beginning, and promised to deliver an interesting story of a dysfunctional family and the strange cast of characters involved in their... Read more
Publié le Avril 28 2002 par Kirstin G. Larson

4.0étoiles sur 5 Brialliantly read, an unbelievable story made real
I noted that other reviewers loved or hated this book. It is long, but paints picture in the mind's eye worth seeing. Read more
Publié le Avril 18 2002 par L. Look

5.0étoiles sur 5 There's Nothing Better than a Good Book
I threw down Franzen's The Connections and Delillo's Underworld in disgust, after an hour's hard effort each. Read more
Publié le Avril 9 2002 par Arline Curtiss

5.0étoiles sur 5 great story brought full circle in classic Irving style
A Widow for One Year is John Irving at his best. The story trails Ruth at three different stages in her life: as a 4 year old, a young woman, and a fortysomething. Read more
Publié le Avril 7 2002 par Saima Huq

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