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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 sexua

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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 sexua

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'Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis', wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. People

'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 pare

'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, i

Bidden wij voor Owen Meany beschrijft de buitengewone en noodlottige vriendschap van twee opgroeiende jongens in Gravesend, New Hampshire. Zomer 1953.

The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his