Book description
'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...
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in
1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times -
winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He
also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior
Space'. In 1992, he 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. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
