
A Widow for One Year
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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By:
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John Irving
Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her in the summer of 1958 on Long Island, Ruth is only four.
The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth 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 41-year-old widow and mother — and 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.
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Critic reviews
“By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments.” (San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle)
"Wisely and carefully crafted...Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony." (USA Today)
“Deeply affecting . . . The pleasures of this rich and beautiful book are manifold. To be human is to savor them.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
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It's not Owen Meany but its good!
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I think more of the average male reader than to think this is the way they think.
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Good, but not his best.
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Amazing Performance, Very Good Throughout
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I love everything this man writes. They have everything from heartache and tragedy to sharp humor. I just want to inside his books and I cry when they are over not just because of the story but because there are so few authors that make me feel this way. Steinbeck comes to mind, one of my other favorites. I rarely give 5 star reviews because I think they should only be given out rarely. I am disappointed when mediocre books get 5 star reviews since they are not worthy. They have to be perfect in every way. I feel this a perfect novel.
I never want John Irving books to end.
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I thought that the reader did a good job although he mispronounced some words. Or maybe it’s an American pronunciation and I’m Canadian.
Unevenly engaging, but I remembered it well from reading it
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Third time through
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Gripping story
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Returning to Amsterdam
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