In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys–best friends–are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. Wilbur Larchsaint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.A boxed set containing three beloved, New York Times bestselling novels by John Irving: The Cider House Rules, A Widow for One Year, and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
She’s about to fall in love for the first time. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.Ī Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. 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. When we first meet her-on Long Island, in the summer of 1958-Ruth is only four. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character-a “difficult” woman. This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. “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.” Used - Fair: Worn book that has complete text pages but may have some small defect like slight tears. Used - Good: Average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. This is a second-hand, used copy of this book.
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