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A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR

內容簡介

內容簡介 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 crucial 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 in the fall of 1990, when Ruth 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. 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.

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各界推薦 小露絲四歲時被媽媽遺棄，沒有留下任何能夠回憶的東西，因此她要成為一個女小說家。「她奮力恢復寫作小說時的平靜心態。她總把小說當作一棟欠整理的大房子、一團亂糟糟的華宅；她的職責就是讓這地方變得適合人居，至少讓它顯得有秩序。只有在寫作的時候，她才無所畏懼。」 史蒂芬‧金：「令人驚異的豐富與原創性，《寡居的一年》是欲振乏力的二十世紀末小說中罕見的創作，當讀者將離開這個深邃而精細的想像世界時，都將感到難捨難離。」

作者介紹

作者介紹 John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar.In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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