John Irving Books

In the midst of the apple orchards in the fertile land of Maine lies a peculiar world, where the odyssey of Homer Wells begins. After several traumatic experiences with his adoptive parents, he becomes a permanent part of the St. Cloud's orphanage. As the oldest orphan, he learns to help young and older women with their concerns. His mentor is Wilbur Larch, the founder of the orphanage, a doctor who fights his own crusade against evil, often at odds with the law. Throughout the story, we follow Homer’s journey, his desire to be useful, his apprenticeship at the orphanage, his adult life in a cider house, his strange bond with his best friend's wife, and his constant departures and returns. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the search for identity in an environment filled with challenges and contradictions.

Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, the doctor returns to India; in Bombay, most of his patients are crippled children. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, twenty years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer.

Focusing on Mozart's renowned string quartets, this guide highlights the composer's deep friendship with Joseph Haydn, who greatly influenced his work. It explores the musical intricacies and emotional depth of these quartets, offering insights into their historical context and significance. The book serves as both an analysis and appreciation of Mozart's contributions to chamber music, making it a valuable resource for music enthusiasts and scholars alike.

Previously published: New York: Pocket Books, 1979.

John Irving's first children's book, illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann, features text from his novel "A Widow For One Year."

Surgically, but with wit Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia.

This collection features the first three novels of this highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. Compassionate, satirical, deeply insightful and humorous, these compelling novels have gained him millions of fans. Setting Free the Bears : Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Astride a 700cc royal Enfield motorcycle, they roamed the Austrian countryside. When Gallen, a lovely hitchhiker, joined them, they zeroed in on the Vienna Zoo--and Siggy's setting free the bears! The Water-Method Man : The acclaimed second novel by the author of the #1 international bestseller, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Fred "Bogus" Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, he stubbornly clings to the notion he'll make something of his life. The 158 Pound Marriage : Sometimes they looked at each other, aroused half out of their minds by the thought that each had just been making love with another, and it would be enough to make them want to do it--together--all over again. Well, almost enough.

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 his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' From the novel's taut opening sentence to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.' So says John Berry, 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 myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.

John Irving hat sie als seine liebste Geschichte bezeichnet: Ein Mann, der auf den Händen geht, ein Bär auf einem Einrad – das sind nur zwei der Seltsamkeiten, die dem Hotelinspektor begegnen, der zusammen mit seiner Familie in der Pension Grillparzer, Wien, Ecke Planken- und Seilergasse absteigt, um zu prüfen, ob sie eine höhere Klassifikation verdient. Dem Irving-Leser sind sie vertraut: Die kurze Erzählung 'The Pension Grillparzer', 1976 erschienen und später in 'The World According to Garp' eingebaut, enthält Irvings ganzen erzählerischen Kosmos in nuce, ist verrückt, skurril, phantastisch und damit bester Irving für Einsteiger. Beigegeben sind Irvings 'notes' zu seiner Story.

An elderly bisexual man looks back upon his life and romances, reflecting on his unfulfilled loves and broken dreams.

Twenty years after The World According to Gary, John Irving gives us a new novel about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive. --back cover

A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage.In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory.

Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's song, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.

Roman om en ung mands opvækst, studenterår og mislykkede ægteskab

Set in the vibrant environment of the Sea Tramp Tattoo Company in Portland, the narrative explores the multifaceted life of Jeff Johnson, who navigates the complex dynamics of tattoo culture. He encounters a diverse clientele, from gang members to everyday individuals, while managing the emotional and artistic challenges of the trade. The book reveals how tattoo shops have evolved into creative spaces filled with camaraderie and competition, showcasing the artistry and drama inherent in this unique profession.

"The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler"--Publisher's description

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An NPR "Great Reads" Book All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive world of publishing in postwar New York—yet what he most desires, and what eludes him, is love. Here is PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter's dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

John Irving S Memoir Begins With His Account Of The Distinguished Career And Medical Writings Of The Novelist S Grandfather Dr Frederick C. Irving, A Renowned Obstetrician And Gynaecologist, And Includes Mr Irving S Incisive History Of Abortion Politics In The United States. But My Movie Business Focuses Primarily On The Thirteen Years John Irving Spent Adapting His Novel The Cider House Rules For The Screen For Four Different Directors.Mr Irving Also Writes About The Failed Effort To Make His First Novel, Setting Free The Bears, Into A Movie, About Two Of The Films That Were Made From His Novels (But Not From His Screenplays), The World According To Garp And The Hotel New Hampshire; About His Slow Progress At Shepherding His Screenplay Of A Son Of The Circus Into Production.Not Least, And In Addition To Its Qualities As A Memoir Anecdotal, Comic, Affectionate And Candid My Movie Business Is An Insightful Essay On The Essential Differences Between Writing A Novel And Writing A Screenplay.

Als een leeuw de linkerhand afbijt van een New Yorkse journalist, wordt gezocht naar een handdonor.

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.

John Irving, 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. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time -- among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

Roman om to ægtepars ménage-à-quatre, fortalt af den ene ægtemand

Juan Diego�e(tm)s little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret �e" Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know �e" or to think you know �e" your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters. This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.

Seven students are about to have their lives changed by one amazing teacher in this school story sequel filled with unique characters every reader can relate to. It’s the start of a new year at Snow Hill School, and seven students find themselves thrown together in Mr. Terupt’s fifth grade class. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school. They don’t have much in common, and they’ve never gotten along. Not until a certain new teacher arrives and helps them to find strength inside themselves—and in each other. But when Mr. Terupt suffers a terrible accident, will his students be able to remember the lessons he taught them? Or will their lives go back to the way they were before—before fifth grade and before Mr. Terupt? Find out what happens in sixth and seventh grades in Mr. Terupt Falls Again and Saving Mr. Terupt. And don't miss the conclusion to the series, Goodbye, Mr. Terupt, coming soon! "The characters are authentic and the short chapters are skillfully arranged to keep readers moving headlong toward the satisfying conclusion."--School Library Journal, Starred

15 berühmte Schriftsteller erzählen ein sommerliches Ferienstück, in dem - so die einzige Bedingung - eine blaurote Luftmatratze vorkommen muss. Illustriert von internationalen Starzeichnern stellt sich beim Lesen dieses Buches unweigerlich ein Gefühl von Sommer-Sonne-blauer-Himmel ein. Man wähnt sich schmökernd auf einer sanft schaukelnden Luftmatratze. Einer blauroten, versteht sich.

Das Buch, das eine ganze Reisebibliothek ersetzt und noch in jeden Koffer passt. Das Ferienlesebuch 2004 mit vergnüglichen und spannenden Erzählungen großer Autorinnen und Autoren. Mit wasserfester Schutzhülle.

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John Irving über Günter Grass und Elisabeth Mann Borgese, über Marcel Reich-Ranicki und Hunde, die Klavier spielen können. Ein Stimmungsbericht über das Deutschland der neunziger Jahre.

Hrsg. von Küver, Martina und Tebbe, Thomas, mit Beiträgen von Brown, Rita Mae; Lessing, Doris; Irving, John. 377 Seiten.

Kim jest Owen Meany? Ofiarą ślepego trafu czy też wizjonerem, który przejrzał zamysły samego Boga? Nowym Mesjaszem czy bluźniercą? Zbiorowym sumieniem pokolenia młodych Amerykanów walczących w Wietnamie czy może wyzwaniem - albo przestrogą? Czy Owen Meany urodził się za wcześnie, czy też za późno, czy we właściwym miejscu i czasie stał się narzędziem w rękach przeznaczenia? Owen Meany to Głos dobywający się z gardła, od urodzenia ukształtowanego do krzyku, to ręka odbijająca piłkę baseballową, która kończy pewien nudny mecz, lecz także daje początek lawinie niesamowitych wydarzeń, historii osobliwej i wzruszającej, okraszonej czarnym humorem, pełnej mrocznego, gorzkiego symbolizmu.

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Die Jubiläums-Edition: 12 erfolgreiche Diogenes Bücher in einmaliger Ausstattung zum einmaligen Preis zum Start des Jubiläums am 1. Juni 2002. Alfred Andersch: Der Vater eines Mörders. Paulo Coelho: Der Dämon und Fräulein Prym. Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Labyrinth / Turmbau. Stoffe I-IX. Patricia Highsmith: Der süße Wahn. John Irving: Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag. Donna Leon: Venezianisches Finale Ingrid Noll: Der Hahn ist tot. Bernhard Schlink: Der Vorleser Georges Simenon: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah. Patrick Süskind: Das Parfum. Andrzej Szczypiorski: Die schöne Frau Seidenman. Urs Widmer: Der Geliebte der Mutter.