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Picked this up at our local library book sale along with a bag of others. The title "Widow" caught my eye and I have read other novels by this author . But this was beyond disappointing, in fact it resembles something a late aunt used to say, "don't even waste your eyeballs on that." I suffered along, trying, hoping for better up to page 110 of its 537 pages. It was published in 1998.
I truly have not had anything this bad to read since I do not know when. The storyline according to the inner book flap didn't sound bad, but I never got past the four year old Ruth. Poor child is daughter of an irresponsible father and a mother who never got over the grief of losing their two older boys, Ruth's brothers born long before her. Very tiresome as the mother has an affair, if it can be called that it is blatant seductions of Eddie, an Exeter high school boy whom the father hired as his writer's s assistant for the summer. Ted, the father is unable to drive from too many DUI's so all he wanted was a chauffeur. Marion, Ted's wife, Ruth's mother uses Eddie as she plans to leave Ted and Ruth. Though the flap describes erotic parts, I found the eroticism tiresome and quite annoying, verging on pornographic as 4 year old Ruth enters her mother's bedroom to see her mounted by Eddie. Yuck.
Spare me any further agony trying to read this drivel. I have so many more books waiting to be read on my shelf. . Therefore no rating from me. It will go into my Goodwill Donation bag. I am surprised I gave it space on this blog as I've read other books I'm waiting to review and share.
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