A Widow for One Year
by John IrvingAvailable
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character. Her story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her – in the summer of 1958 – Ruth is...
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character. Her story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her – in the summer of 1958 – Ruth is...
A comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's...
Every major character in this story has been marked for life - not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's son, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a...
The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and...
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old...