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040			_aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
010			_a 98096725
020			_a0345424719
100			_aIrving, John, _d1942-
245	1	2	_aA widow for one year : _ba novel / _cby John Irving.
260	0		_aNew York : _bRandom House, _cc1998.
300			_a537 p. ; _c25 cm.
520			_aRuth 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 stony 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 novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
650			_aLove stories.
650			_aHumorous stories.
650			_aErotic literature.
650			_aWomen _xFiction.
650			_aWomen _xFiction.
650			_aWidows _xFiction.
650			_aDomestic fiction.
650			_aConflict of generations _xFictgion.
650			_aFamily _xFiction.
942			_c UKN
999			_c49193 _d49193