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A deux heures de New York, il est une vieille demeure au bord de la mer grise. L'été 1958, Eddie, joli garçon de seize ans, y découvre l'amour dans les bras de la plus belle femme du monde, qui est aussi la plus triste, tandis qu'autour d'eux planent d'innombrables photos, gracieux fantômes de ses fils perdus. Ruth, sa petite fille, s'éveille au milieu de la nuit, et Ted, son mari, rusé joueur de squash et Don Juan balnéaire, écrit des contes pour enfants, des contes qui font peur... Mais l'été finit au premier vol d'oies sauvages, et la blonde Marion prend sa Mercedes rouge pour abandonner le mari qu'elle n'aime plus, le jeune amant qu'elle n'ose pas aimer, et la fillette à laquelle elle craint trop de s'attacher.
Après cette aube nostalgique, nous retrouvons Ruth en 1990, romancière célèbre et redoutable joueuse de squash, mais célibataire anxieuse, qui appréhende le mariage et la maternité. Lors d'une tournée de promotion à Amsterdam, une virée dans le quartier chaud et la rencontre d'une accorte prostituée rousse la confrontent à une aventure tout droit sortie de ses terreurs enfantines.
Une veuve de papier a la verve burlesque et parfois polissonne des meilleurs romans de John Irving ; c'est aussi un livre nocturne, sur la part d'ombre dans l'être, le deuil et la mélancolie ; mais c'est surtout un conte merveilleux, où, si le chagrin a la vie longue, l'amour se trouve et se retrouve.
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Fiction, Women novelists in fiction, Women novelists, Single mothers in fiction, Widows in fiction, Widows, Single mothers, Grief, Grief in fiction, Love stories, Domestic fiction, contemporary fiction, Romance fiction, Fictional Work, death, novelists, Conflict of generations, Families, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Widows, fiction, Large type books, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, erotica, generalPeople
Ruth Cole, Ted Cole, Eddie O'Hare, Marion ColeShowing 7 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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Una Mujer Dificil
2004-06, TusQuets Editores, S.A.
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A Widow for One Year
2004, Ballantine Books
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A Widow for One Year
1999-05, Ballantine Books
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A Widow for One Year
1999, Black Swan
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Witwe für ein Jahr.
February 1, 1999, Diogenes Verlag, Zürich
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A Widow for One Year
1998, Random House
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“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.”
This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. 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 focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four.
The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.
A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She’s 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.
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