From the Book - 1st trade ed.
First Sentences: An Introduction to A Widow for One Year / John Irving --
The Inadequate Lamp Shade --
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound --
Eddie Is Bored--and Horny, Too --
A Masturbating Machine --
Why Panic at Ten O'Clock in the Morning? --
How the Writer's Assistant Became a Writer --
Something Almost Biblical --
The Authority of the Written Word --
The Red and Blue Air Mattress --
Ruth Remembers Learning to Drive --
Pain in an Unfamiliar Place --
Ruth Gives Her Father a Driving Lesson --
A Widow for the Rest of Her Life --
Ruth's Diary, and Selected Postcards --
Ruth Changes Her Story --
Not a Mother, Not Her Son --
Followed Home from the Flying Food Circus --
The Prostitute's Daughter --
Sergeant Hoekstra Finds His Witness --
In Which Eddie O'Hare Falls in Love Again --
Better Than Being in Paris with a Prostitute --
In Which Eddie and Hannah Fail to Reach an Agreement --
A Happy Couple, Their Two Unhappy Friends --