A widow for one year : a novel
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- ISBN: 97806769768310 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0676976832 (pbk.)
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555 p. ; 21 cm. - Edition: Movie tie-in ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2004]
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Subject: | Widows -- Fiction Grief -- Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Cranbrook Campus | PS 3559 .R8 W53 2004 (Text) | 11111001351172 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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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. - Random House, Inc.
Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman â and a faithful wife for twenty-two years â has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.
By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry, impulsive, often self-contradictory, unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career, and she distrusts her judgement in men, for good reason. Five years later, at forty-one, Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother. Ruth's child is the same age Ruth was when her mother left her. Now Ruth is about to fall in love for the first time.
A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both richly comic and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.