A review by smcscot
A Widow for One Year by John Irving

4.0

I've said it before and I'll say it again, John Irving is a master storyteller. I dont think this book was his best effort by any means, but there's something about Irving novels that ensnares you. The characters he creates are so realized and fully dimensional, that a type of literary love blossoms while delving into his thick tomes. Sometimes they can be tedious, but once they are done there is a sense of loss; these people, always flawed and nearly always upper middle class, are such a wonderful analysis of what it means to be human, that when they are gone the tedium seems to dissapear and a desire for more emerges.