John Irving
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Language
English
Description
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 this tale...
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Language
English
Description
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...
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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 witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s...
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. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s...
Author
Language
English
Description
“A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.”—USA Today
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island...
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A commemorative hardcover edition of the only collection ever published of the celebrated novelist's shorter works. Here is a treat for devoted fans of John Irving. First published twenty years ago, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author, beginning with three memoirs. The longest of the memoirs is "The Imaginary Girlfriend," his candid account of his twin careers in writing and wrestling, which, as the Denver Post observed,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."
11) 3 by Irving
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
xv, 718 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003, ©1972
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first ..."--Publisher description.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Tells a compelling and heartwarming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs. Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own
14) Simon Birch
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Ever since doctors proclaimed Simon Birch's birth as a miracle, Simon's sure he's going to be a hero, he's just not sure how
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Publisher
Focus Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women