A Widow For One Year by John Irving, 1st Ed Hardcover

Title:  A Widow For One Year by John Irving, 1st edition Hardcover.
Author: John Irving.
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A Widow for One Year is a 1998 novel by John Irving, the ninth of his novels to be published. The novel was adapted into the film The Door in the Floor in 2004. Wikipedia
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.  By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.
Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life.  When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--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 forty-one-year-old widow and mother.  She's 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.
Originally published: 5 May 1998
Genre: Speculative fiction
Publisher: Random House
Adaptations: The Door in the Floor (2004)
Country: United States of America
Format: Hardcover.
This First Edition by Bloomsbury Publishing 1998.
Condition: Excellent, Dust Jacket and binding all in excellent condition.
ISBN: 0747536783
Price: R 325.00 Inc Vat.