A Widow for One Year - Limited/numbered UK Edition
by Irving, John
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury. As New. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A special first UK edition, limited to 1,000 copies, the true first edition, preceding all other editions. A wonderful scarce book in unread As New condition, bound in tan cloth with inset paper title; black edged pages and black lettering. In original shrink-wrap. An impeccable collectible; John Irving's deeply affecting novel about a family marked with tragedy, centering around the complex, often self-contradictory character of celebrated writer Ruth Cole. The portrait begins with Ruth being four years old and closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. Basis for the major motion picture "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger; 8vo .
Synopsis
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. A Prayer for Owen Meany was published in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules –a film with seven Academy Award nominations.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15099
- Title
- A Widow for One Year - Limited/numbered UK Edition
- Author
- Irving, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, American Fiction Fictional Works Author Widows
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- Author Collections / Irving, John;
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