John Irving

La novela que dio a conocer a John Irving en el mundo entero.En 1942, tras un episodio escandaloso, Jenny Fields, una joven bostoniana de buena familia, abandona la seguridad del hogar para ser enfermera y vivir su vida. En circunstancias peculiares, concibe a un niño al que llama Garp, a secas. Madre e hijo, se abren paso, sin mas armas que su propia energia, en un mundo de hipocresia, inhibiciones y violencia. Poco a poco, con los años, Jenny y Garp van diseñando su propio universo en medio de esa hostilidad inevitable en la que siempre acecha la sombra del Sapo Sumergido. Lo van poblando de personajes excentricos, cuyas historias estrafalarias van dando forma a ese mundo de Garp un poco desquiciado, pero en el que todos parecen convivir en cierto armonico equilibrio, en un sistema tribal que, al final, ha ocupado por completo el lugar del antiguo hogar de Jenny. El mundo segun Garp es, de hecho, el mundo tal como lo conocemos. La unica diferencia, es que Garp, que es escritor, se arriesga con humor alli donde nosotros, menos curiosos, nos inhibimos.

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 story of unfulfilled love - tormented, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is a poignant tribute to Billys friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. It is an unforgettable portrait of solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile.

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'.

Billy é um menino diferente: sua sexualidade sempre incluiu o gosto pelo masculino e o feminino e todo o espectro entre os dois gêneros. Um dos protagonistas mais atormentados e apaixonantes de John

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.

Um dos mais importantes representantes da literatura americana contemporânea, ganhador de prêmios de prestígio como o National Book Award e autor de Regras da Vida, livro cuja adaptação para o cinema

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.

Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, um pequeno orfanato, localizado, em St. Cloud´s, no estado americano do Maine, funciona como lar dos desvalidos. É lá que muitas mulheres vão deixar seus filhos pa

Juan Diegos little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know or to think you know your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead?Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters.This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.

In his latest novel, John Irving explores - in his inimitable way - the ways in which our pasts reverberate in our presents and, indeed, our futures.Juan Diegos little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know or to think you know your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead?Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters.This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.

As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. ''An aura of fate had marked him,'' John Irving writes. ''The chain of events, the links in our lives - what leads us where were going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we dont see coming, and what we do - all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.''Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past - in Mexico - collides with his future.

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.

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 since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.

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.