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A widow for one year : a novel / John Irving.

LIBRA Special PS3559.R8 W53 1998
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Author/Creator:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Love stories.
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, xiv, 537 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First trade edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Random House, [1998]
Summary:
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 critical time in her life. When we first meet her Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens on 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.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is paperback edition.
ISBN:
  • 0375501371
  • 0965589444
OCLC:
37955786

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