A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR: THE FIRST "FILM TIE-IN" EDITION - Rare Fine Association Copy of The First "Film Tie-In" Edition/First Printing: Signed And Inscribed by John Irving - ONLY SUCH SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Irving, John

ISBN 10: 0345469011 / ISBN 13: 9780345469014

Published by New York City, NY: Ballantine Books, 1999, 2004

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 555 pages. Published in 1999. The author's ninth novel. One of the best American novels of the last decade of the 20th century. The First "Film Tie-In" Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The film adaptation is entitled "The Door In The Floor". It was written and directed by Tod Williams with John Irving's full blessing and cooperation. The film starred Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, and Elle Fanning. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in its "Film Tie-In" Edition, John Irving's "A Widow For One Year". The epic story of a family, dysfunctional at best, unable to cope with tragedy or bear each other at worst. It is widely regarded to be John Irving's best novel since "The World According to Garp", his masterpiece. "Irving's storytelling has never been better. An engaging and often affecting fable, a fairy tale that manages to be old-fashioned and modern all at once" (The New York Times). "The most dangerous secrets are the ones we're afraid to tell ourselves" (John Irving). An absolute "must-have" title for John Irving collectors. This copy is very boldly, beautifully, and affectionately signed and inscribed in blue ink-pen on the title page by the author: "For [names of recipients], with my gratitude, John Irving". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipients, who are named, are (obviously) personally known to the author and cannot be named here. Irving's penmanship here is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First "Film Tie-In" Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: John Irving did NOT sign copies of the book, making this signed copy truly one-of-a-kind, and the reason one collects signed copies in the first place. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN IRVING TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0345469011. Seller Inventory # 23553

Bibliographic Details

Title: A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR: THE FIRST "FILM TIE-IN...

Publisher: New York City, NY: Ballantine Books, 1999

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.

The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.

A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time.

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.

About the Author:

John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He is the author of nine novels, among them The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Son of the Circus. Mr. Irving is married and has three sons. He lives in Toronto and in southern Vermont.


From the Paperback edition.