Word: widowed
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...years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever further toward...
...most appealing attributes of A Widow for One Year is its refusal to pay any attention to the electronic clamor of American life. There is scarcely a TV set to be found in the entire novel. Recorded music appears fleetingly as an intrusive annoyance. Irving's people crave old-fashioned peace and quiet, and to a large extent they get it. All the book's major characters are or become writers--during the course of a long story that spans nearly four decades. The novel is made up of both what they experience and what they tell...
After relating the events of that momentous summer, Irving jumps forward to periods of time in 1990 and 1995, following Ruth and Eddie and Ted and assorted friends and lovers as they grow older. But nearly everything that happens in A Widow for One Year is foreshadowed or present in embryonic form in the novel's long opening section. Irving's use of suspense is peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information...
Sources say Fagan's next wife was a widow who received a large settlement after her husband was hit by a car. Chris Larmoyeux, a Palm Beach lawyer, said Fagan was a devoted father, a well-liked neighbor, a director of the Palm Beach Opera company and a generous man with his money. "When you look at how he's raised his daughters and how they turned out, he's done an extraordinary job," Larmoyeux says...
...Leonardo DiCaprio is a U.N. election monitor with Minnie Driver as a Bosnian widow... Don't laugh -- Kofi Annan was taking meetings in Hollywood today, pitching ideas and trying to enlist the movie industry's support in improving America's understanding of the U.N. Besides seeking star power to back U.N. initiatives, Annan also wants to get producers interested in making a movie about U.N. workers in the world's trouble spots. Like the Dalai Lama, Annan has sensed that the battle for Washington may be won or lost in Tinseltown. "To get the kind of support it needs...