A Widow for One Year
"Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving
gives us a new novel about a family marked with tragedy and the women who
survive... 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. "
[Publisher blurb]
Unlike his previous novel, A Son of the Circus, Widow is more personal
than epic. The theme of family is more reminicent of his earlier works
(Garp and Hotel). I fell so in love with the beginning of the novel, that
the ending left me slightly disappointed. A fine and touching work, but
it pales in the shadow of his greater efforts.
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