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Book Review of A Widow for One Year

A Widow for One Year
A Widow for One Year
Author: John Irving
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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"A sprawling, complex famly history, 'A Widow for One Year' will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned story telling mixed with modern sensitivities. Wisely and carefully crafted, it's a novel about grief, the kind that lingers, and bout families, the ones we're born into and ones we make for ourselves. Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony." - USA Today