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Widow for one year

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents'bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's also about to fall in love for the first time...

Издательство: "Black Swan" (2013)

ISBN: 978-0-552-99796-6

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Irving,John

Irving, John. Born 1942.

American writer. His darkly humorous novels include The World According to Garp (1978) and The Cider House Rules (1985).

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