num_pages: 537
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Widow for One Year
titlecomplete: A Widow for One Year
characters: Marion Cole, Ted Cole, Eddie O'Hare, Ruth Cole
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Adult, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 61795
places: Long Island, New York, Amsterdam
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Unabridged
publisher: Knopf Canada