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