*A Widow for One Year
1 journaler for this copy...
Bought @ "Kunst & Krempel", Caritas Zürich, Birmensdorferstr. 53, 8004 Zürich (opp. Bahnhof Wiedikon)
This is a great source, and there seems to be quite a quick turnover!
All books are CHF 3 - in German, English & some French & Italian.
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This is a great source, and there seems to be quite a quick turnover!
All books are CHF 3 - in German, English & some French & Italian.
Click here for map
Great read, another cracking John Irving novel and November's choice for the Zuerich book club. A book about writing, readers, books, remembering, grief.
Our Review...
It was a polarizing, nonetheless stimulating, book--some of us really enjoyed Irving's way of telling/suggesting what was going to happen before it happened, some of us not. Since the main character of the book, Ruth, was too often asked if her characters were autobiographical, we also wondered if his reoccuring themes--affairs with older women and parents who abandon their childeren--autobiographical. We also talked about how his female characters seem to be either totally unlikeable or somewhat masculine.
Favourite quotes...
"Mrs Grant had once told Ruth that she'd only had one child because, after Hannah was born, she missed all the time she'd once had to read." p.322
"Since Ruth's earliest memories...books, and the characters in them, had entered her life and remained fixed there."p354
Our Review...
It was a polarizing, nonetheless stimulating, book--some of us really enjoyed Irving's way of telling/suggesting what was going to happen before it happened, some of us not. Since the main character of the book, Ruth, was too often asked if her characters were autobiographical, we also wondered if his reoccuring themes--affairs with older women and parents who abandon their childeren--autobiographical. We also talked about how his female characters seem to be either totally unlikeable or somewhat masculine.
Favourite quotes...
"Mrs Grant had once told Ruth that she'd only had one child because, after Hannah was born, she missed all the time she'd once had to read." p.322
"Since Ruth's earliest memories...books, and the characters in them, had entered her life and remained fixed there."p354
Being released at Book party 15.12.2007 or at local Caritas Shop
