Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/06/1999
ISBN: 9780552997966
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 127mm
Weight: 440g
RRP: £10.99
'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...
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/06/1999
ISBN: 9780552997966
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 127mm
Weight: 440g
RRP: £10.99
Wickedly knowing, mischievously post-modern and magical realist along the lines of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robertson Davies
Gripping, full of horror and humour
A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel
Irving's storytelling has never been better
His best since Garp