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	A Widow for One Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Widow for One Year is a John Irving novel, released in 1998,
		Her elder brothers had died four years ago in a car accident, and she is constantly reminded of their presence as pictures of their childhood adorn all the walls of the Cole family home.
		It covers Ruth's brief widowhood (the "A Widow for One Year" from the title) and involves the solving of a murder she observed while researching her novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Widow_for_One_Year (537 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - A Widow for One Year by John Irving
		A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.
		By turns antic and moving, lusty and tragic, A Widow for One Year is bursting with memorable moments....
		"A Widow for One Year is as compelling as Garp.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/widow_for_one_year.asp (1511 words)

	Books: Widow's Walk (The Boston Phoenix . 07-06-98)
		JOHN IRVING'S A Widow for One Year (Random House, 608 pages, $27.95) opens with Ruth Cole, age four, walking into her mother Marion's bedroom and discovering her having sex with Eddie, the 16-year-old assistant to Ruth's father, Ted.
		A Widow for One Year revolves in many ways around the aftermath of a car crash that kills two teenage brothers and the effect this has on their sister, who was born after the accident.
		A Widow for One Year is your first novel with a traditional linear plot since The Hotel New Hampshire, in 1981.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-06-98/boston_books_2.html (3102 words)

	John Irving’s A Widow For One Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Irving's A Widow for One Year chronicles the history of the Cole family over a period of 37 years.
		(Years later, Eddie writes a novel about this summer called Sixty Times.) Marion is angered by Ted's duplicity, and leaves him one day by surprise, taking all but one of the photographs of their dead boys.
		While we wait nearly forty years for that question to be answered, we are instead offered subplots such as Ruth and Ted's squash rivalry, Eddie's brief infatuation with the adult Ruth, and Ruth's witnessing the murder of an Amsterdam prostitute while conducting research for a novel.
	www.thesatirist.com /books/WidowForOneYear.html (1420 words)

	A widow for one year
		Bill's story, which appeared here last year, chronicled the feelings of a man staring death in the face, a father taking stock of his life.
		Widows over the age of 60 are to be cared for spiritually and financially.
		Years ago, she had been a math major.
	www.ardemgaz.com /prev/weddle/aexweddle24.html (4470 words)

	A Widow for One Year
		The view from the widow's walk of a 100-year-old house being renovated and restored by Frank "Buddy" Gadams in Norfolk, Virginia's Ghent area, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the state.
		Twenty years ago this week, a fund to support the families of murdered and injured UDR soldiers was set up to relieve hardship.
		The widow, a mistress and a heartless court; It was only when her husband of one year died in a motorbike crash that Sadie Dalziel found out he had a mistress.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0766568.html (509 words)

	The Door in the Floor Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Years ago, the couple lost their two teenaged sons in a horrific car accident.
		Nearly 25 years later, Tod Williams (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole) is covering similar territory, adapting the first third of John Irving's novel, A Widow for One Year, into a feature film, The Door in the Floor.
		His wife, Marion (Kim Basinger) is in a near-catatonic state, still grieving the sudden deaths of their two teenage sons several years before.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139111 (1975 words)

	eBay - Book: A Widow for One Year (ISBN: 034543479X) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	Wrestling With Grief / John Irving pins down loss and redemption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Twenty years after the publication of ``The World According to Garp,'' John Irving is at the peak of his considerable powers in ``A Widow for One Year,'' his most intricate and fully imagined novel.
		At 4 years old, Ruth is the precocious child of Ted, a celebrated children's book author and illustrator known for his kinetic charm, and the impossibly beautiful Marion.
		Like those hundreds of pictures of the dead boys, ``A Widow for One Year'' is a compelling composite of love and loss, a testament to one of life's most difficult lessons: In the end, you just have to find a way to keep going.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/05/03/RV17872.DTL (931 words)

	'A Widow For One Year' by John Irving
		His last full-length novel, "A Son of the Circus," matched the others in length and complicated storylines, but it was a sprawling, unwieldy mess of a book, and perhaps the exotic India locale was a bit too unfamiliar for both the author and his regular readers.
		She is a "replacement" child for the two sons her parents lost in a car accident 10 years earlier.
		The summer of Ruth's fourth year is pivotal in charting the course of her life.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980510review33.asp (860 words)

	CNN - Books: Reviews -"A Widow for One Year" - June 2, 1998
		I may have occasional feelings of guilt, but they are fleeting once I became captured in the story John Irving weaves in his new tapestry "A Widow For One Year".
		The disintegration of the Cole's marriage was sparked by the tragic death of their two teen-age sons five years earlier.
		The second and longest section of the book takes place 32 years later when Ruth has grown up to become a very successful novelist, Ted is a 77-year-old seducer of younger women, and Eddie is also a novelist whose book plots all relate to a younger man/older woman syndrome.
	www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9806/02/widow.for.year.cnn (545 words)

	village voice > film > The Door in the Floor by Ed Park
		In regard to the attention paid to such prosaic mechanics, Tod Williams's The Door in the Floor (an adaptation of Irving's A Widow for One Year) is a triumph.
		At a critical moment, Marion declares that she'd rather be no mother to Ruth than a bad one, to which Eddie responds, "That doesn't make any sense." And indeed it doesn't.
		Widow's full arc might have filled in the blanks; intensifying Irving's playful metafiction, both Eddie and Ruth become novelists.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0428,park1,55011,20.html (527 words)

	Book vs. Movie: The Door in the Floor vs. A Widow for One Year
		The Door in the Floor is based on a portion of the John Irving novel A Widow for One Year.
		A Widow for One Year is the story of Ruth Cole.
		Irving’s A Widow for One Year is a completely engrossing story about a woman and the decisions she makes.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8487 (1129 words)

	Anti Essays : : A Widow For One Year by John Irving
		John Irving’s A Widow For One Year is an intricate narrative of several love stories.
		Ruth Coughlin from the “San Francisco Chronicle” says “A Widow for One Year, his (Irving) most intricate and fully imagined novel is a compelling composite of love and loss”(Coughlin 1).
		William Pritchard of the “The New York Times Book Review” states that, “A Widow for One Year is a grand celebration of the forces of love and hope over grief and despairit is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force”(Pritchard 2).
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=2203 (1316 words)

	daversace.com - Writings - John Irving
		He then read his story--it was very funny. He said how he was originally going to include it as part of his new novel, A Widow for One Year. But, he decided to make his short story a story written by the main character of A Widow for One Year instead.
		He has 679 pages written so far. He joked that she isn't even a widow yet. Then he read the first chapter from the book. I think this is going to be a good one.
		It's a story of the woman author told chronologically--he said he wanted a change from the last few books he wrote that had a lot of flashbacks. The story is told in three different segments of time--first when she is 4, then two others (can't remember).
	www.iit.edu /~versdav/design/writ_irving.shtml (469 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97049166 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0411/97049166.html (220 words)

	Litwank: A Widow for One Year, John Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Litwank: A Widow for One Year, John Irving
		This was a book of healing for me. Not because of the content of the book itself, but because it was long, engaging, and a great read at a time when i needed to chew through five or six hundred pages in 24 hours.
		I still think Irving is a good writer, and i especially found the last few lines of the book pleasing as a circle-through.
	www.estarcion.com /litwank/archives/002461.html (75 words)

	A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by JOHN IRVING - BOOK HELP WEB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		After reading A Widow for One Year, I suspect his books are touchstones in his life, each representing a period in which he explores an idea or a philosophy.
		A Widow for One Year is a nearly seamless picture of a lifetime.
		A Widow for One Year is a book that absolutely resists being summarized in a banal statement such as “This book is about writing.” Or “This book is about sex.” The book is about many things, and is complex enough to have different meanings for different people.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/irving/0345424719.htm (915 words)

	U-San Bernardino County Sun - FILM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		More than a few John Irving novels have made their way to the screen, very few of which were in any way under the author's supervision.
		Until Williams came along, however, Irving was convinced that his novel "A Widow for One Year" was all but unfilmable.
		Versions of "The Fourth Hand" and "A Son of the Circus" are both in development, with "Circus" potentially reuniting the author with Jeff Bridges.
	u.sbsun.com /Stories/0,1413,216~24281~2304996,00.html (660 words)

	Ellen Isaacs: Ellen Isaacs' review of 'Widow For One Year'
		Like all of Irving's books, A Widow for One Year is hard to encapsulate in a short summary.
		It centers around Ruth Cole, a famous author and daughter of a famous (and philandering) children's author.
		Ruth's mother disappeared when she was 4 years old, but not before having an affair (sanctioned by her father) with a 16-year-old boy, who eventually becomes Ruth's friend as an adult and who never stops loving Ruth's mother.
	www.izix.com /personal/books/1999/widow.php (251 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Door in the Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Directed, written by Tod Williams, based on the novel "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving.
		Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges star in 'The Door in the Floor,' based on the bestselling novel 'A Widow for One Year' by John Irving.
		Narrowing his focus to one virtually free-standing section of John Irving's sprawling novel, "A Widow for One Year," writer-director Tod Williams may have radically altered the perspective of the book but arguably has made a film truer to the author's perennial concerns than any of the previous, uneven adaptations of his work.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117924148?categoryid=31&cs=1 (1135 words)

	THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and ...
		The first part of Irving’s best-selling novel A Widow for One Year has been brought to the screen through a unique creative alliance encompassing dedicated independent filmmakers, the celebrated author himself, and a committed troupe of actors.
		Irving feels that A Widow For One Year lends itself to the “kind of abridgement” Tod Williams has made with The Door in the Floor.
		But I didn’t see a way to do A Widow for One Year as a film, because in the novel the feeling of the passage of time is as important as any major character.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=2623 (2332 words)

	Amazon.com: A Widow for One Year : A Novel: Books: John Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A Widow for One Year has got to be my favorite John Irving novel.
		Widow is really a human story about loss and how far some of us will go for love.
		Ruth responds to criticism about a book that centers on the life of a writer, which is precisely what A Widow for One Year is. I get the impressed Irving uses the character of Ruth to express a lot of his emotion about being a writer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501371?v=glance (2174 words)

	A Widow for One Year -- Books and Cooks June 1999
		John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers.
		Why is it necessary for Ruth to marry Harry (and so quickly, too!) so as to be a widow for _just_ one year.
		In some senses, A Widow for One Year is about what Irving knows, since it is about writers.
	www.cs.cornell.edu /people/vickyw/BandC/1999books/widow.html (778 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: John Irving
		In A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, when I was doing research in Amsterdam with a policeman --- about the details concerning the murder of a prostitute --- the policeman introduced me to Amsterdam's most famous tattoo artist, Henk Schiffmacher.
		For eight years I have been writing and rewriting my screenplay of A SON OF THE CIRCUS for one director (Martin Bell) from the beginning.
		A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR, Irving's latest full novel, is pure Irving from cover to cover.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-irving-john.asp (3870 words)

	Amazon.com: A Widow for One Year: Books: John Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Irving's A Widow For One Year is the epic story of a family, dysfunctional at best, unable to cope with tragedy--or with each other.
		The death of Ruth's older brothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into a zombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter.
		The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 when Ruth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lackluster love life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345424719?v=glance (2173 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Widow for One Year: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alan dies of course, Ruth is a widow for one year, until she fells in love for a second time, this time with the Amsterdam cop Harry Hoekstra who tracks her down (and instantly fells in love with her, too) when a prostitute is found dead and there is only one witness...
		Irving's "Widow for one year" deals with love, passion, and fugacity, a well-told tale of dramatic lives woven together through live and death, I can only recommend anyone to read.
		Her life is completely devastated by the deaths of their two children in a car accident at age 17 and 15, five years before the novel starts.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676971946 (1775 words)

	\| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Twenty years after "The World According to Garp," Irving's "A Widow for One Year" (Ballantine Books, $14.95 paperback) investigates the debilitating grip of grief and the recuperative powers of the imagination.
		Identify Ruth's ultimate disgrace and imagine why this is "the humiliation she was looking for." Determine how Eddie, with his "instinct for closure," is able to accept his own losses.
		Despite the unbearable tragedies and twisted behavior throughout the novel, "A Widow for One Year" is, surprisingly, a comic novel that ends happily.
	www.ajc.com /living/content/living/books/readroom/readroom10.html (791 words)

	A Widow for One Year Book at Shop Ireland
		She looses the idea of innocence attatched to her in her younger years and we see her far more as a woman who to my mind is filled with spite.
		A Widow for One Year combines love, grief, uncertainty and expectation with the silly, the sordid and the bizarre.
		I think that one reason I found this book disappointing was the the main character was not at all engaging; I didn't really care what happened to Ruth Cole, except in the first part when she was a four year old girl.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0345469011 (1180 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| A Widow for One Year by John Irving
		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.
		A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976830 (339 words)

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