A Widow for One Year
by By Irving, John
Category: Fiction , Literary

In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times  in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the  fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as  successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth  is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she’s about to fall in love for the  first time). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love  story of astonishing emotional force.