![]() ![]() " Irving's] characters can beguile us onto thin ice and persuade us to dance there. ![]() ![]() An engaging and often affecting fable, a fairy tale that manages to be old-fashioned and modern all at once." - The New York Times ![]() "A sprawling 19th-century production, chock full of bizarre coincidences, multiple plot lines, lengthy digressions, and stories within stories. A testament to one of life's most difficult lessons: In the end, you just have to find a way to keep going." - San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments. Both elegiac and sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. 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). Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony."- USA Today " A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. ![]()
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