The Resource A widow for one year, John Irving
A widow for one year, John Irving
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Resource Information
The item A widow for one year, John Irving represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waterloo-Grant Township Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A girl discovers her mother in bed with a teenage boy and later the mother abandons her. Meanwhile, her father is seducing young girls. So begins the story of Ruth Cole, a famous writer struggling to overcome childhood traumas and find love
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 537 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375501371
- Label
- A widow for one year
- Title
- A widow for one year
- Statement of responsibility
- John Irving
- Title variation
- Door in the floor
- Subject
-
- trueNew York City
- trueMen/women relations
- trueTraffic accidents
- Domestic fiction
- trueExtramarital relations
- Women novelists -- Fiction
- trueLong Island, New York
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueWidows
- trueGrief in women
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueWomen authors, American
- Love stories
- trueMurder witnesses
- truePsychological fiction
- trueFour-year-old girls
- trueFemale friendship
- trueBooks to movies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A girl discovers her mother in bed with a teenage boy and later the mother abandons her. Meanwhile, her father is seducing young girls. So begins the story of Ruth Cole, a famous writer struggling to overcome childhood traumas and find love
- Summary
- Chronicles the life of a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of her siblings' deaths and her parents' adultery, who only finds love after motherhood and widowhood
- Award
-
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 1998.
- New York Times Notable Book, 1998
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 035738
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3559.R8
- LC item number
- W53 1998
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A widow for one year, John Irving
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2284864
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 537 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375501371
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 97049166
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm37955786
- Label
- A widow for one year, John Irving
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2284864
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st trade ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 537 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375501371
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 97049166
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm37955786
Subject
- trueBooks to movies
- Domestic fiction
- trueExtramarital relations
- trueFemale friendship
- trueFour-year-old girls
- trueGrief in women
- trueLong Island, New York
- Love stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueMurder witnesses
- trueNew York City
- truePsychological fiction
- trueTraffic accidents
- trueWidows
- trueWomen authors, American
- Women novelists -- Fiction
Genre
- trueBooks to movies
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueLove stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- truePsychological fiction
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 1998
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 1998
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