A Widow For One Year
A Widow For One Year
John Irving
'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. and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.
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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...
Product Description
Title - A Widow For One Year
Edition -
Author - John Irving
ISBN 13 - 9780552997966
Imprint - Black Swan
Publisher - Transworld Publishers Ltd
Date Published - 01/06/1999
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 127 x 198 x 38mm
Weight - 440 g
Languages - English