A Widow For One Year
Author | : John Irving |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781448111855 |
ISBN-13 | : 1448111854 |
Rating | : 4/5 (854 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Widow For One Year written by John Irving and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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...