A Widow For One Year - Rilegato

John Irving

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ISBN 10: 067697080X ISBN 13: 9780676970807

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 1998

Riassunto

A Widow for One YearThe World According to Garp, published twenty years ago. It is also a compelling story about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive.

Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman - and a faithful wife for twenty-two years - has an affair with a sixteen-year- old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. Marion also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.

By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become a renowned author - an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry, impulsive, often self-contradictory, unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. Ruth distrusts her judgement in men, for good reason; by no means is she conventionally "nice".

Five years later, at forty-one, Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother. Ruth's child is the same age Ruth was when her mother left her. Now Ruth is 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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Recensione:

"Irving is a consummate story-teller. Dazzling-- wildly funny and richly rewarding." - Calgary Herald
"John Irving is never content with giving us something as meagre as a novel.... He wants us to know the whole story, everything, not just the thin slice of world usually known as fiction.... A writer with the courage to follow this difficult journey--is a writer to be treasured." - The Times (London)
"Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to everyone." - Time

L'autore:

John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He is the author of nine novels, among them The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Son of the Circus. Mr. Irving is married and has three sons. He lives in Toronto and in southern Vermont.

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• Editore: Knopf Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 067697080X
• ISBN 13: 9780676970807
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida