A Widow for One Year -- John Irving, Paperback

In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 03/23/1999
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.81w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780345424716

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/09/1999 pg. 42

About the Author
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Academy Award nominations.