I may be stating the obvious, forgive me if I am. The main characters (including Ruth Cole) in John Irving's A Widow for One Year, are all John Irving. It's the author at different points in his life. Look at the jacket photo of Irving as he describes Ted Cole. Instead of wrestling, which permeates so many of his earlier books, you have squash. Ruth Cole is the Author, Ted Cole is the the present Irving, and Eddie O'Hare is the Young Irving. Of course they all intermingle, and overlap and spread, being parts of the same man and characters in the same writer's novel.
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