![]() ![]() Young Eddie, the sixteen-year-old, falls in love with Ruth’s mother, as Ruth’s father had hoped – this will make getting a divorce and custody of Ruth easier. ![]() John Irving delights in sexual shenanigans, and this book is no exception. Those people include two dead brothers, a beautiful mother who fears loving Ruth because of the loss of those two boys, a father who is a children’s author/illustrator who delights in destroying the lives of the women who fall in love with him, and a young man of 16 who comes to live with the Cole family one summer, and never really leaves in spirit. ![]() I say “purportedly” because the first section is not really about Ruth, it is about the people, dead and alive, who shaped her life. The novel is purportedly in three sections, the first when Ruth Cole is four, the next when she is an unmarried and successful novelist in her thirties, and the third when she is a widow of 41. But the buzz on his newest release, A Widow for One Year, was so good that I shelled out the big ones, and I’m thoroughly glad I did. A huge fan of The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire, I lost interest in John Irving when he wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany. ![]()
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