The Resource A widow for one year, John Irving
A widow for one year, John Irving
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- Summary
- We first meet Ruth Cole in the summer of 1958 when she walks in on her mother having sex with 16-year-old Eddie O'Hare, the assistant to Ruth's alcoholic father. The death of Ruth's older brothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into a zombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter. Ted Cole is a semisuccessful writer and illustrator of disturbingly creepy children's novels. His womanizing habits prove he's "as deceitful as a damaged condom," but he remains the only stable figure in Ruth's life. The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 when Ruth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lackluster love life. The final segment of the novel ends in 1995 when 41-year-old Ruth is ready to fall in love for the first time
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (667 pages)
- Note
-
- Portrait on inside front cover
- Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1998
- Label
- A widow for one year
- Title
- A widow for one year
- Statement of responsibility
- John Irving
- Subject
-
- Long Island (Staat New York)
- Verlieben
- Love stories
- Cole, Ruth (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Schriftstellerin
- Geschichte 1954-1995
- Witwe
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Geschichte 1954-1995.
- Schriftstellerin
- Verlieben
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Women -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Witwe
- Relationships -- Fiction
- Women novelists -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- We first meet Ruth Cole in the summer of 1958 when she walks in on her mother having sex with 16-year-old Eddie O'Hare, the assistant to Ruth's alcoholic father. The death of Ruth's older brothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into a zombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter. Ted Cole is a semisuccessful writer and illustrator of disturbingly creepy children's novels. His womanizing habits prove he's "as deceitful as a damaged condom," but he remains the only stable figure in Ruth's life. The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 when Ruth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lackluster love life. The final segment of the novel ends in 1995 when 41-year-old Ruth is ready to fall in love for the first time
- Cataloging source
- UKM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Irving, John
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3559.R8
- LC item number
- W53 1999
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women novelists
- Cole, Ruth (Fictitious character)
- Relationships
- Widows
- Women
- Schriftstellerin
- Witwe
- Verlieben
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Schriftstellerin
- Verlieben
- Witwe
- Long Island (Staat New York)
- Label
- A widow for one year, John Irving
- Note
-
- Portrait on inside front cover
- Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1998
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (667 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036930245
- Label
- A widow for one year, John Irving
- Note
-
- Portrait on inside front cover
- Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1998
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (667 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036930245
Subject
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Cole, Ruth (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Geschichte 1954-1995
- Geschichte 1954-1995.
- Long Island (N.Y.)
- Long Island (Staat New York)
- Love stories
- Relationships -- Fiction
- Schriftstellerin
- Schriftstellerin
- Verlieben
- Verlieben
- Widows -- Fiction
- Witwe
- Witwe
- Women -- Fiction
- Women novelists -- Fiction
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