num_pages: 560
description: Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.Â Â 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.Â Â 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.Â Â She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.
language: English
title: A Widow for One Year
titlecomplete: A Widow for One Year
characters: Eddie O'Hare, Marion Cole, Ruth Cole, Ted Cole
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Fiction, Adult Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 61795
places: Long Island, New York, Amsterdam
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Unabridged
publisher: Balantins