{"product_id":"a-widow-for-one-yearbooks","title":"A Widow for One Year","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Widow for One Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, a story of a family marked by tragedy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRuth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Widow for One Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRichly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Widow for One Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Irving, John","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42468068196576,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43218423709920,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/Widow_for_1yr.jpg?v=1645547227","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/a-widow-for-one-yearbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}