Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A handsome first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket.

John Irving's deeply affecting novel about a family marked with tragedy, centering around the complex, often self-contradictory character of celebrated writer Ruth Cole. The portrait begins with Ruth being four years old and closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.

Basis for the major motion picture "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger; 8vo.

Price: $70.00