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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...



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Wickedly knowing, mischievously post-modern and magical realist along the lines of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robertson Davies * Time Out *
Gripping, full of horror and humour * Literary Review *
A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel * San Francisco Chronicle *
Irving's storytelling has never been better * New York Times *
His best since Garp * Time *

A Widow For One Year

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      Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1999
      ISBN13: 9780552997966, 978-0552997966
      ISBN10: 055299796X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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...



      Trade Review
      Wickedly knowing, mischievously post-modern and magical realist along the lines of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robertson Davies * Time Out *
      Gripping, full of horror and humour * Literary Review *
      A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel * San Francisco Chronicle *
      Irving's storytelling has never been better * New York Times *
      His best since Garp * Time *

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