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'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'
This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's also about to fall in love for the first time...
This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career; and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's also about to fall in love for the first time...
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"Wickedly knowing, mischievously post-modern and magical realist along the lines of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robertson Davies" (Time Out)
"Gripping, full of horror and humour" (Literary Review)
"A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Irving's storytelling has never been better" (New York Times)
"His best since Garp" (Time)
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"Gripping, full of horror and humour" (Literary Review)
"A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Irving's storytelling has never been better" (New York Times)
"His best since Garp" (Time)
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.
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