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A Widow For One Year
  • Published: 28 May 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552997966
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 656
  • RRP: $35.00

A Widow For One Year

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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

'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...
  • Published: 28 May 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552997966
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 656
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he 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. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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Praise for A Widow For One Year

His best since Garp

Time

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

Irving's most entertaining and persuasive novel since The World According to Garp

The New York Times

A joy to read

Evening Standard

Irving's storytelling has never been better

New York Times

A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel

San Francisco Chronicle