John Irving
John Irving was born in New Hampshire. He studied at universities in America and Europe and published his first novel, During the 1980s John Irving wrote a series of absorbing and celebrated books: Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire ... [... more]
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John Irving Reads the Pension Grillparzer: A Complete ...
natural storyteller: this story within a story, to me, is the highlight of the world according to garp. the plot is funny and beautiful and sad and humbles me as a writer. this story holds its own outside of the context of the novel, however i recommend [... more]
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether ... [... more]
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Michael Prichard
The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, ... [... more]
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Prayer for Owen Meany
 From Amazon.com: Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired [... more]
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King Leary
One of the funniest books you will ever read: King Leary is an old man now, but in his heydey he was the king of the ice, leaving opponents clutching at air as he executed the famous St Louis Whirligig. He is tracked down by an androgyous advertising [... more]
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Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
Taco Thursday Or What I Did In The Summer of '69: I'm a great fan of the "coming of age" story and of the first novel. "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving, being one of my favorite coming of age stories. In Patracia Santana's " [... more]
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The Half-life of Happiness
From Amazon.com: Although The Half-Life of Happiness begins "For no reason he could think of, Mike felt terrific," the reader is not reassured. The details accrue with disturbing precision during Mike's walk across Charlottesville's Courthouse [... more]
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John Irving John Irving: A Critical Companion a Critical ...
An absolute MUST for Irving fans: This book is just fantastic. There's so much that's good to say about it, but if you're an Irving fan like I am, it's essential to your reading. She looks at his work in parts and as a whole, and does it wonderfully. I [... more]
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Atonement
From Amazon.com: Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, [... more]
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A Moment of Weakness
another great read: Karen Kingsbury has written yet another great read. All of Ms. Kingbury's books have a romantic touch but do not lead the mind to impure thoughts. This book touches on a subject that many people struggle with, but hide from because of [... more]
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Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style
Author: John Irving Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 786.2183 EAN: 9780521027410 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0521027411 Number Of Pages: 237 Publication Date: 2006-11-02 [... more]
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