Home > Books & Magazines > Printed Book >

A Widow for One Year - John Irving


 A Widow for One Year - John Irving Printed Book
amazon

A Widow for One Year - John Irving

 
Description: ISBN 055299796X / Author: John Irving / Genre: Classic Literature / John Irving's most successful and widely-acclaimed novel since A ... more
A Widow for One Year - John Irving ... Prayer for Owen Meany. 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. Her story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life.

Newest Review: ... Marion to cope with. His daughter Ruth, meant to help ease the pain, is lost somewhere between the ever present pictures of ... more

 ... her brothers and a mother who can not love her. Eddie comes along as a summer assistant to Ted, although the need for one is not apparent to him. Lack of work causes Eddies mind to wander and stray where every teenage boys mind strays to at that age, to sex. A somewhat humorous all be it embarrassing moment brings Marion and Eddie together. At the end of the summer Marion is gone and Ruth is left confused and insecure. Where is her mother and more importantly where are the pictures of Timothy and Thomas. The stor...more

Price Comparison for A Widow for One Year - John Irving

A Widow for One Year
Pages: 667, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Black Swan
Last Update 07.01.2010 06:11
£ 6.73
Free!


within 24 hours
A Widow for One Year - John Irving go shopping
 
ruth_cole
Crowned Review A Widow for One Year - John Irving: The Reason Ruth Cole Was A Writer (1087 words)
by - written on 23/11/04 (Very useful, 578 readings)
Rating:

"I work with ink." Ted Cole describes his work as a children's author and illustrator thus, to the amusement of many who see this as less than the usual literary affectation (rather than, as it is, more). But then Ted IS this charming man. Ruth, his daughter, loves him in a way she could never love her stunning but ice-cold mother, Marion, who in turn is forever protected from loving another child by the heartbreak she sustained when her two beloved sons were robbed from her. In this damaged and fractured relationship, four-year-old Ruth Cole is introduced to us. The novel that follows traces her through three key stages of her life, first childhood, ...  Read the complete review

Nolly
Premium Review One of Irving's Best! (468 words)
by - written on 24/07/02 (Very useful, 97 readings)
Rating:

You find yourself in a bookshop- well, I do anyway! And as you peruse the shelves, passing the time of day (being careful to avoid looking at the erotica section, you never know what you will see!), you don't half come across some weird and wacky book titles. In my opinion there are one or two titles that haven't been used that should have been. My favourite is: 'Dieting with Prunes and Syrup of Figs - The 'S' Plan Diet'. But I digress as ever. There is one author whose titles are very striking and, once you get to know his style, there are certain things that you look for and cherish- not that there is any similarity ...  Read the complete review

moronboy
Premium Review A Widow for One Year - John Irving: Classy stuff (205 words)
by - written on 23/08/00 (Useful, 60 readings)
Rating:

A typical John Irving novel, full of sexual shenanigans, dirty old men, eccentrics and multiple, generation crossing plots. It's the story of Ruth Cole, a soulful novelist destined to be, as the title has it, a widow for one year, her father Ted Cole, a womanising children's author, and Eddie, an old flame of her absent mother, desperately obsessed with older women since his teenage liaisons with her. There are some odd diversions here - somehow, Ruth gets involved with in a murder hunt for a serial killer of prostitutes halfway through - but what impresses about 'A Widow for One Year' is Irving's confidence in balancing so many subplots, and ...  Read the complete review

peltholly
Premium Review Captivating and fullfillng (557 words)
by - written on 06/02/07 (Somewhat useful, 123 readings)
Rating:

A widow for one year is a compelling story of love, loss and resolution. This is the first John Irving book I have read and it is the best book I have read in a while. His ability to paint a picture, as it were, is remarkable, and his humorous and awkward approach to the sexual encounters in the book makes you feel akin to Eddie, we have all had those moments. Each of the characters in the book are irresistible in their own unique way and in some way we relate to them all. Ted Cole is a man slowly losing all that is important to him. He is an accomplished writer of children’s books who seems detached from his true reality. The tragedy of his twin sons ...  Read the complete review

 

Products similar to A Widow for One Year - John Ir...

strong plot, lots of action little lacking in characterisation

ribald and hilarious tale of magic, eroticism and unexpected transformations might be a bit *too* naughty for sensitive readers

Upresidented story line that is beautifully written! None.

interesting, eyewitness accounts not the best writing style

Brilliant writing and satire A bit heavy for younger readers

Full Characters, Fascinating Characters, Amazing plot You might cry at the end?

More products in Printed Book

Bambi Grows Up - Walt Disney

The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean - Alexander McCall Smith

The Hundredth Man - Jack Kerley
Sets the scene for later, better novels... Feels like the reader has missed a book in the chain but this is the first novel in a series...

Body Double - Tess Gerritsen
A gripping, emotional thriller that really flows off the page and keeps you enthralled Not paticulary ground-breaking but doesn't need to be as it's a very stylish thriller

Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia - Gary Russell
Comprehensive None

Boudica: Dreaming the Bull - Manda Scott
Sci-Fi & Fantasy - Scott, Manda

Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel - Laurell K. Hamilton
Vampires. Very, very fruity!

The Alibi Man - Tami Hoag
not a bad read not particularly memorable or gripping

Everything Beautiful - Simmone Howell

Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
fresh twists on well known genre stand bys, well thought out presentation not a lot to the scienctific aspects

Advantages and disadvantages from the dooyooCommunity
 
A Widow for One Year - John Irving