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Original Title: A Widow for One Year
Edition Language: English
Characters: Ruth Cole, Ted Cole, Eddie O'Hare, Marion Cole
Literary Awards: Audie Award for Fiction, Unabridged (1999)

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“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. 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—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she 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. Source: john-irving.com

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Title:A Widow for One Year
Author:John Irving
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 576 pages
Published:June 1st 2004 by Ballantine Books (first published 1998)
Categories:Fiction. Contemporary

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I hated about 89% of this book. The first part-- the whole 1958 part-- I really loved. Loved Eddie's goofy dad, the clam truck driver, Mrs. Vaughan, Ted drunkenly making Ruth grilled cheese. I was really excited to keep reading. I even loved the beginning of the next part-- Eddie running around in the rain trying to get to the book reading. After that? JUST WTF. Adult Ruth was insufferable. Hannah was about four billion times more insufferable. Ruth's journal and novel excerpts-- yep,

I started to give this four stars but, the more I thought about it, well, here's five stars. A fifth star (from me) means there has to be something timeless about the story, passages that express moments of what I think of as universal connection and deep understanding. My heart either seems to slow down or speed up and I sometimes close my eyes and feeling a welling up of emotion inside. I suppose if I were willing to spend the time on this review I could express myself better, but here I sit

I had really expected something different. This is the 1st of his books that I have read but I knew he wrote The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Maybe it is just this book but I have to say that Mr. Irving has his mind in the gutter. (sorry to all of you who think this was a terrible thing to say!) He is funny sometimes and he does write memorable scenes, however... right now we are perusing the red light district in Amsterdam. There is sex on just about

The first half is Irving at his best. All those hooks on the wall. All that broken glass and all those windblown sketches. All that honesty amid all that posturing. All that clunky sex amid endless guilt.The second half embodies the detachment, the absurdity, the too-many-ideas-at-once that the main characters have grown to embrace. Perhaps they are defense mechanisms. Perhaps they are the inevitable scars of emotional abuse. Marion is so matter-of-fact about her fate, so resigned to a life that

In my late teens and early twenties I used to read Irving's books all the time, I think I must've read "a widow for one year" at least 4 or 5 times - it was one of my favourite books of his. I'd recently decided to read it again (it's been years...), this time in English. It's not the book I used to love. Or maybe I'm not the person I used to be. It's been a surreal experience. The story, the characters, the language, nothing was like it used to be. It was like reading two different books on the

John Irving has yet again created a whole world between the covers of a novel. Characters grow old with the reader, experience lust and loss, love and life. The thoughtfulness of his every detail and the concise placement of every word create a landscape more vivid than realityOne of the interesting topics of conversation in A Widow for One Year involves the main characters attitude towards autobiographical fiction. Irvings protagonist, world-famous author Ruth Cole, gives one hope that the

If they search in my library after I die, they'll find inside the covers of some of my books notes, lists of characters and favorite quotes. There will be underlined phrases throughout. Exclamations in the margins. Here's a quote from this John Irving novel that I believe describes much of what this story is trying to say.Ted Cole is in the passenger seat while he gives his daughter, Ruth, a driving lesson. "The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull oversometimes you can't stop, and you