John Irving

Una vida entera marcada por la Historia.John Irving regresa al mundo de Las normas de la casa de la sidra y al orfanato de St. Cloud’s.En 1908, en el estado de Maine, una noche muy fría y en medio de

Una vida entera marcada por la Historia.John Irving regresa al mundo de Las normas de la casa de la sidra y al orfanato de St. Clouds.En 1908, en el estado de Maine, una noche muy fría y en medio de una intensa nevada, dejan a una niña de casi cuatro años en el porche del orfanato St. Clouds, que dirige el doctor Larch. La niña no llora; mas bien, parece enfadada. La enfermera del orfanato que sale a buscarla ve como a lo lejos, en la oscuridad, se alejan dos mujeres. Casi diez años despues, en St. Clouds siguen sin encontrar una familia de acogida para esa niña, llamada Esther. Precisamente por entonces, los Winslow, un matrimonio que vive en New Hampshire, deciden adoptar un hijo mas, pero recorreran varios orfanatos antes de decantarse por St. Clouds. Alli les cuentan la historia de Esther, quien sera acogida por los Winslow y se convertira en una especie de angel de la guarda para su nueva familia. Su vida sera una historia de supervivencia y una profunda exploracion de la identidad y la pertenencia, y sera testigo del impacto perdurable de la Historia en nuestras vidas.

Supervivència, identitat i limpacte de la història en les nostres videsLEsther Nacht, protagonista daquesta novel·la, és jueva i òrfena. Nascuda a Viena el 1905, es va traslladar amb els pares a Main

A los lectores habituales de John Irving, conocido por sus complejas y largas novelas, quizá les sorprenda descubrir en La novia imaginaria a un autor de narraciones breves, de una simplicidad y de una concision extraordinarias. Dividido en tres partes Relatos autobiograficos, Narraciones y Homenajes, este volumen reune doce piezas literarias que cubren treinta años de escritura. Y en todas ellas esta presente, con su proverbial ironia y malicia esta vez referidas a si mismo y con modestia y sinceridad inesperadas, el autor que ha cautivado ya con sus novelas a tantos lectores en el mundo entero. Al hilo de sus narraciones y digresiones, John Irving va evocando sus encuentros con hombres notables ya sean entrenadores deportivos o profesores de literatura que le han servido de estimulo, y otros mas corrientes, como el entonces presidente de Estados Unidos Ronald Reagan. Se recuerda como un adolescente gafe y torpe, incomodo en todas partes menos en el ring de lucha libre, y que, cuando no luchaba, leia a los clasicos, en particular a Dickens. Tras contar historias de ficcion, describe, bajo distintas formas, episodios insolitos como el año electoral correspondiente a las campañas de Bush y Clinton, o como vendio a la revista Playboy un cuento suyo con un seudonimo femenino. Tampoco faltan los homenajes a sus autores predilectos. Y señala: Ser escritor es un arduo maridaje entre una observacion minuciosa y la imaginacion, no menos minuciosa, de las realidades que no has tenido ocasion de ver. Por eso La novia imaginaria es a la vez un gran logro literario y la expresion de un modelo de vida, el mundo segun Irving.

Auf der Laienbühne seines Großvaters in Vermont lernt William, dass gewisse Rollen sehr gefährlich sind. Und dass Menschen, die er liebt, manchmal ganz andere Rollen spielen, als er glaubt: so wie die geheimnisvolle Bibliothekarin Miss Frost. Denn wer sich nicht in Gefahr begibt, wird niemals erfahren, wer er ist

Billy Abbott, nato nel 1942, e cresciuto in una cittadina del Vermont senza aver conosciuto il padre, in una famiglia di uomini eccentrici e donne puritane. Si rende conto di essere attratto dalle "persone sbagliate" ragazzi efebici, donne mascoline, travestiti e transgender - e a occuparsi della sua educazione letteraria e sessuale e Miss Frost, la bibliotecaria. Negli anni successivi Billy attraversera l''oceano, vedra morire amici e amanti nell''ecatombe dell''Aids, diventera scrittore, ritrovera suo padre. I grandi temi tipici dei libri di Irving - la ricerca di un padre mai conosciuto per svelare il mistero che lo avvolge, la profonda verita delle passioni che ci abitano, la necessita di non incasellare le persone in uno schema - danno vita a una toccante epopea sul terrore di essere diversi, e sulla felice impossibilita di essere altro da se.

His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade (Vanity Fair). A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled lovetormented, funny, and affectingand an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a sexual suspect, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of terminal cases, The World According to Garp. In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billys friends and loversa theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile.

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 sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of "In One Person", tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect", a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 - in his landmark novel of "terminal cases", "The World According to Garp". His most political novel since "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany", John Irving's "In One Person" is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, "In One Person" is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile".

Seuls depuis la fuite de William, un organiste qui collectionne les conquêtes féminines et les tatouages, Alice et son fils partent pour l''Amérique. L''enfant grandit entre filles à matelots, chaste

John Irving Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or scratcher. Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England including, tellingly, a girls school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hildas, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym. Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jacks hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, sleeping in the needles and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonists unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vividdetail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we cant get rid of. Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older and when his mother dies he starts to doubt the portrait of his fathers character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable 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 living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'. From the novel's taut opening sentence - 'The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long' - to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice - the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: 'We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly - as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth - the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives'.

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. A breathtaking story of a father and a son in 20th-century North America from the award-winning author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.

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 Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is very much alive.

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.