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In an absorbing account of the archaeology and culture of Indian tribes in the Great Lakes region from 1600 to 1820, George Quimby recounts the results of decades of careful study of archaeological sites in this 1966 classic. ... Read more

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A biography of one of America's earliest great literary figures with selections from his works and a collection of opinions written by critics of his day and since. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.  By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life.  When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.

The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career.  She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.

A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.  She's about to fall in love for the first time.

Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.  Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
John Irving's A Widow For One Year is the epic story ofa family, dysfunctional at best, unable to cope with tragedy--or witheach other. The unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Guidall(The Cat Who Sang forthe Birds, TheInner Sanctum, The Legacy) draws thelistener in with a crisp, methodical vocal presentation. Guidallportrays each character with a convincingly distinct voice, accuratelyimpersonating the characters' intonations and verbal habits. Theinteraction between characters is both conversational andbelievable.

We first meet Ruth Cole in the summer of 1958 when shewalks in on her mother having sex with 16-year-old Eddie O'Hare, theassistant to Ruth's alcoholic father. The death of Ruth's olderbrothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into azombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter. Ted Cole is asemisuccessful writer and illustrator of disturbingly creepychildren's novels. His womanizing habits prove he's "as deceitfulas a damaged condom," but he remains the only stable figure inRuth's life. The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 whenRuth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lacklusterlove life. The final segment of the novel ends in 1995 when41-year-old Ruth is ready to fall in love for the first time.

Thisprofoundly absorbing story expresses the depths of misery and thehealing power of love. Irving writes as a true storyteller, andGuidall executes the narrative with vigor and enthusiasm. (Runningtime: 24.5 hours, 14 cassettes) --Gina Kaysen ... Read more

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John Irving makes me laugh...what more do you want?
First off, I must say that John Irving is one of the most interesting and humerus authors of our time.It would be easy to say that Widow does not stand up to Cider House or Garp.However, in my opinion this book stands up and fits in very well.Irving develops characters and plot lines very well and he is flat out funny.I have read every one of his books and this is one of my fovorites.

too loooooooooooooong
I nearly bailed about half way through - found too much repetition - plot too unlikely.Not one of his better books.

Great Character Development
This book is definately a character study. It's well written and enjoyable to read.It takes some surprising turns and some of the characters are laid bare in a very raw and "real" way.It taps into the neediness of humanity.Not a lot of "plot" per se but definately an overall great read.

I loved it!
I loved it.Irving tells a complex, quirky, fascinating story in a complex, quirky, fascinating way.You have to wrap your head around it.Thinking is required when reading John Irving.He's a master at his craft.

This story is about all the things in life we'd rather not talk about.A mother deserting her 4 year old daughter when she was unable to deal with her grief concerning the loss of two teenage sons gripped me.Eddie, a teenage boy developing a life long desire for this grieving mother never lets Marion be far from his thoughts.Ted, a womanizer with a penchant for younger women is left to raise Ruth.Ruth grows up to become a best selling author never able to let go of her anger toward her absent mother. Throw in a cop and a prostitute in the red light district in Amsterdam and the pages of this novel never stop turning.

I rated this novel 5 out of 5.It is a masterful display of the power of the written word.For me as an author, Irving is to be studied and disected.This one's a keeper.

Linda C. Wright
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One Clown Short

A book obviously written by a male chauvinist
(Caution: This review is full of spoilers). The book started out extremely slowly. In fact, I pushed myself through the first third of the book. Irving's writing is not very engaging. I had high hopes for this book but was truly disappointed. As I pressed on chapter through chapter, I began to understand Irving's views towards women: fickle, apathetic, slutty, convoluted, incomprehensible, overbearing, emotionless, dramatic, etc.His characters are truly one dimensional and never changing. His characters seem to be very laid back characters who take life as it attacks them and they just roll with the blows. There is no passion to this book whatsoever. There's Hannah who is an unreliable slut of a best friend to Ruth. Then there's Eddie who is still emotionally and pathetically attached to a notion of love that lasted a few weeks over the summer when he was 16. There's Ted who's a philandering husband to Marion and father to Ruth. The book is absolutely ridiculous. How many people marry for the reasons that Ruth married? Who has a child when they never imagined having a child, with no reason or explanation for this drastic change in Ruth's personality/ideologies/emotions? How are we to believe she got over her husband's death within a year of widowhood? Then went to Paris with a Dutchman she just met a day before? Then a few weeks later, he moves to the US to be with her. Then they get married months later. This book simply makes it seem that women are absolutely unpredictable - not in love, but in life. That women do things on a whim that cannot be explained nor should they try to be understood. How can Irving expect us to believe that women are so callous and forgetting of the past? Who's to believe that Marion's character can simply waltz back into their lives? This book is simply a fairytale. Nothing really holds this book together. The characters and their plots seem to have been like stuff thrown to the wall and seeing what sticks. I found this book to have extremely negative views on women and a too lighthearted view on mourning.It's completely unbelievable and absolutely infuriating to read. Thank goodness we have used bookstores we can return this type of literature to! ... Read more

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The works of Washington Irving with active table of contents.Works Include:

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
Bracebridge Hall or The Humorists
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
The Crayon Papers
A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, vol 2
The Life of George Washington, vol 1
Little Britain
Old Christmas
Oliver Goldsmith, A Biography
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Tales of a Traveller
Tales of the Alhambra
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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Der Band führt in die rehabilitative Behandlung neurologisch geschädigter Patienten ein. Leser erhalten einen umfassenden Überblick über die Fakten und zugleich Handlungsanleitungen für die praktische therapeutische Arbeit. Für die 2. Auflage wurden alle Grundlagenkapitel (Neurophysiologie, normale Bewegung) aktualisiert und alle Fallbeispiele zu den unterschiedlichen neurologischen Störungsbildern auf Grundlage der Befundkriterien der Internationalen Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit (ICF) neu geschrieben.

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Follow the hilarious career of the world's worst wildlife photographer--from his first photos that almost show animals to a terrifying helicopter ride with a pilot who doesn't believe in flight, in "Mountain Goats Never Say Cheese". "Cubs" is the tale of ice, fire, mosquitoes, camping, skinny dipping, and the most successful practical joke ever. "But Where Is the Park Papa?" exposes the bizarre side of vacationing in what used to be nature. And "Mean Gifts", a hilarious tale about gifts--gross ones, dangerous ones, ones that make children anxious, and one that sends sportsmen to jail. ... Read more

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Life of George Washington - Volume 1by Washington Irving

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Publisher: Chicago, Scott, Foresman and companyPublication date: 1904Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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