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John Irving
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents; he…
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One of the world's greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
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The iconic coming-of-age novel that made John Irving a household name
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The nearest thing to an autobiography Irving has written … worth saving and savoring. –Seattle Times Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary…
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'The Indian circus is a metaphor for everything that has always fascinated me visually.' - Mary Ellen Mark
This is a new edition of Mary Ellen Mark's 1993 book Indian…
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P.S. insights, interviews & more… –Cover.
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of…
By turns brilliantly comic and emotionally moving, this New York Times #1 bestseller is hailed as a riveting entertainment and certainly one of the funniest novels of the year (…
In this candid memoir, John Irving recounts his experience adapting his novels for the screen, particularly the 13-year journey leading to the award-winning film version of The Cider House Rules…
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Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he’ll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his…
‘The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and…
‘One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her…
William Morrow modern classics –Cover.
‘The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud’s so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to…
Mathias Sajovitz
The aim of the analysis at hand is to refer to existentialist philosophy as a framework, through which it becomes possible to successfully attempt a breakdown of Irving's protagonists' lives…
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Bouchra Belgaid
John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption.
Washington Irving
In pre-revolutionary New York, Rip Van Winkle unknowingly falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to find the world irrevocably changed.
Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic…
JOHN IRVING,John Irving
It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was…
One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years–a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. Since his first novel…
A collection of letters and memoirs in honor of the late Lieut. John Irving, who served in the British Army during the early 19th century. The volume provides insight into…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Mozart’s piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist’s repertoire. This study looks at a…
As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. What a terrible burden it is to know -…
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A married woman in…
‘According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack’s most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold…
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our…
Twenty years after he had been the examining physician of two victims of a transsexual serial killer, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla leaves Toronto to return to his native Bombay and comes…
John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the…
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God’s instrument; he is. This is Irving’s most comic novel, yet Owen, the inspiration for the…
In this absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, Jack seeks a sense of identity and father figures while accommodating a host of overbearing and elaborately…
John Irving's fifteenth novel is "powerfully cinematic" (The Washington Post) and "eminently readable" (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of…
‘The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in…
Presents a portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving’s development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. This book also gives…
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A novel by the author of The World According to Garp , The Hotel New Hampshire , The Cider House Rules , A Prayer for Owen Meany , and Trying…
Fred ‘Bogus’ Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy’s. Yet…
Explains how the author became a writer. This title also contains six stories, including The Pension Grillparzer .
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were…
One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
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The lives of the Berry family members are seen through the eyes of John, who reflects upon his often chaotic existence as the son of a hapless dreamer, a brother…
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and…
T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives…
A New York Times -bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity. Billy, the bisexual narrator, tells the tragicomic story of his life as a sexual suspectO amid a theatrical…
The practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch–obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist–are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells. Reader’s Guide included. Reissue.
