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Widow for One Year, A

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Author: Irving, John
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Corgi
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Publication Year: 1999-05-01
ISBN#: 978-0-552-14668-5
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Pages: 668
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Language: English

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'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...