A Widow for One Year - John Irving

The number one bestselling author gives readers a new novel about a family marked by tragedy and the difficult women who survive. Both ribald and erotic, A Widow for One Year is also a brilliant, multi-layered work about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. \nIn 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). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.