John Irving A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR First Edition Signed

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John Irving A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR First Edition Signed

First edition first print hardback of A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving and published by Bloomsbury in 1998. Signed to a previous owner by Irving on the title page. Full numberline: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

The book is in near fine condition (black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no significant wear apart from some age tanning around the page edges. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has very light creasing to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character - a 'difficult' woman. By no means is she conventionally 'nice', but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each dealing with a critical time in her life - firstly when she is a child of four, secondly when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career, and lastly when she is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother, and she is about to fall in love for the first time. A richly comic and deeply disturbing multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.

548 pages plus A Note on the Author

ISBN: 0747536783

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