Biographical Note | p. vii |
First Sentences: An Introduction to A Widow for One Year | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Summer 1958 | |
The Inadequate Lamp Shade | p. 3 |
Summer Job | p. 8 |
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound | p. 11 |
Unhappy Mothers | p. 20 |
Marion, Waiting | p. 25 |
Eddie Is Bored--and Horny, Too | p. 30 |
The Door in the Floor | p. 35 |
A Masturbating Machine | p. 47 |
Come Hither ... | p. 60 |
The Pawn | p. 71 |
Ruth's Right Eye | p. 79 |
Dumping Mrs. Vaughn | p. 85 |
Why Panic at Ten O'Clock in the Morning? | p. 97 |
How the Writer's Assistant Became a Writer | p. 109 |
Something Almost Biblical | p. 116 |
The Authority of the Written Word | p. 129 |
A Motherless Child | p. 137 |
The Leg | p. 152 |
Working for Mr. Cole | p. 161 |
Leaving Long Island | p. 170 |
Fall 1990 | |
Eddie at Forty-Eight | p. 187 |
Ruth at Thirty-Six | p. 202 |
The Red and Blue Air Mattress | p. 218 |
Allan at Fifty-Four | p. 225 |
Hannah at Thirty-Five | p. 244 |
Ted at Seventy-Seven | p. 257 |
Ruth Remembers Learning to Drive | p. 275 |
Two Drawers | p. 285 |
Pain in an Unfamiliar Place | p. 291 |
Ruth Gives Her Father a Driving Lesson | p. 300 |
A Widow for the Rest of Her Life | p. 309 |
Ruth's Diary, and Selected Postcards | p. 312 |
The First Meeting | p. 325 |
Ruth Changes Her Story | p. 339 |
Not a Mother, Not Her Son | p. 352 |
The Moleman | p. 362 |
Followed Home from the Flying Food Circus | p. 380 |
Chapter One | p. 382 |
Missing Persons | p. 388 |
The Standoff | p. 394 |
Ruth's First Wedding | p. 402 |
Fall 1995 | |
The Civil Servant | p. 413 |
The Reader | p. 419 |
The Prostitute's Daughter | p. 427 |
Sergeant Hoekstra Finds His Witness | p. 437 |
In Which Eddie O'Hare Falls in Love Again | p. 451 |
Mrs. Cole | p. 467 |
Better Than Being in Paris with a Prostitute | p. 480 |
In Which Eddie and Hannah Fail to Reach an Agreement | p. 496 |
A Happy Couple, Their Two Unhappy Friends | p. 512 |
Marion at Seventy-Six | p. 523 |
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