Auteur

John Irving

(°1942)

Uitgaves

  • Fourth Hand, The
    Fourth Hand, The (2001)

    The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: <quote>How can anyone identify a dream of the future?<quote> The answer: <quote>Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.<quote> While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion<colon>... [meer]

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  • Fourth Hand, The
    Fourth Hand, The (2001)

    The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers... [meer]

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  • Widow for One Year, A
    Widow for One Year, A (1998)

    Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving gave us his ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, about a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character -a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.... [meer]

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  • 158-Pound Marriage, The
    158-Pound Marriage, The (1997)

    The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage à quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though... [meer]

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  • Son of the Circus, A
    Son of the Circus, A (1994)

    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<colon> in Bombay, most of his patients are crippled children. Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla... [meer]

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  • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)

    Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. Following a spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, including 'The Pension Grillparzer', previously only... [meer]

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  • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)

    Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer: "A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can... [meer]

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