A Widow for One Year (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Irving
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Plot: Character study
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s to 1995
- Setting: Long Island, New York, and Amsterdam
- Principal Characters: Ted Cole, Marion Cole, Ruth Cole, Eddie O’Hare, Hannah Grant
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance
- Locales: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Novel
A Widow for One Year focuses on writers as it tells a sprawling story that covers nearly forty years. The novel introduces numerous characters, each one well drawn and memorable, and effectively relates a variety of events, often in a comic manner. Yet its main narrative thrust lies in the way writers develop, the private and public lives they lead, the methods they employ, the reasons they write, the material they use, and the success they gain. Told in the omnisicient third person, the novel opens in 1958 when sixteen-year-old Eddie O’Hare enters the...
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