A Widow for One Year Book Reviews

AUTHOR
John Irving
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
343

A Widow for One Year by John Irving Book Summary

“A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers  who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.”—USA Today

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 sensual, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.

Praise for A Widow for One Year

“Compelling . . . By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments. . . . A testament to one of life’s most difficult lessons: In the end, you just have to find a way to keep going.”—San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

“A sprawling 19th-century production, chock full of bizarre coincidences, multiple plot lines, lengthy digressions, and stories within stories. . . . An engaging and often affecting fable, a fairy tale that manages to be old-fashioned and modern all at once.”—The New York Times

“[Irving’s] characters can beguile us onto thin ice and persuade us to dance there. His instinctive mark is the moral choice stripped bare, and his aim is impressive. What’s more, there’s hardly a writer alive who can match his control of the omniscient point of view.”—The Washington Post Book World

“In the sprawling, deeply felt A Widow for One Year, John Irving has delivered his best novel since The World According to Garp. . . . Like a warm bath, it’s a great pleasure to immerse yourself in.”—Entertainment Weekly

“John Irving is arguably the American Balzac, or perhaps our Dickens—a rip-roaring storyteller whose intricate plot machinery is propelled by good old-fashioned greed, foolishness and passion.”—The Nation

“Powerful . . . a masterpiece.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Book Name A Widow for One Year
Genre Literary Fiction
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Language English
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Brilliant!. This is my first novel with Mr. Irving and I find myself still reeling from this incredible book. His command of language, plot and details are incredible. The author suffuses his characters with such richness that you know from the first sentence you are hooked. More than my first impression, this novel is about the lives of one family who, being all writers' , find their lives intermingled and rooted in their beginning of " the summer of '58 ". With this, it spurns a thirty year span of love, passion, books, murder, and suicide. Read it. Then call your friend to read it as well. John Irving is an author you want to note as " your author to look for and buy from name alone". However, you have been warned that when reading this book, plan to be up all night and day. Highly recommend this novel and urge you to purchase and read his other books. You won't be disappointed.

An epic.. My single favorite work of fiction. Expertly layered and told. Every emotion is here, raw and true Bravo, sir, bravo.

sorry but. why Lisa Barton give it one star and say brilliant?

Great Read. Read this book in the early 2000s. In high school. Reading it again, I understand so much more. Time waits for no one.

A Widow for one year. All I can say about this book is that I loved it. Wonderful writing.

personal favourite. i loved this book and all the detail put into it. i find i have a hard time summarizing this book when asked, because it encompasses so much. a simple, mature, empathic, and honest book.

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Summary of A Widow for One Year by John Irving

The A Widow for One Year book written by John Irving was published on 05 May 1998, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 343 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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