John irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, NH, in 1942. His novels have been translated into over 35 languages. Avenue of Mysteries, his fourteenth novel, is out now.

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Reading "The Hotel New Hampshire" now by John Irving. Highly recommend it so far - it makes you think about what you value in life and why. And this is one of the best quotes that sums it all up.

The author's latest—and longest—book reflects a lifetime of thinking on love, family and sexual politics

My 10 Favorite Books: John Irving - The New York Times

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John Irving conceived the idea of his tenth novel one night after watching the news at bedtime. A brief account and sketchily reported story about the nation’s first hand transplant grabbed his attention and tickled his narrative bone. How did the recipient lose his hand in the first place? Who was the donor? Was he a family member, a friend, a stranger to the patient? His wife, Janet, then asked the offbeat question that inspired the master satirist to dig in his heels: “What if the donor’s…

‘This is why I have a gun,” says John Irving, between bites of expensive roast quail at the Inn at West View Farm, which is a winding ten-minute drive from his house in Dorset, Vermont. Even his agent and second wife, Janet Turnbull, eagerly aw [...]

John Irving

Basically, anything by John Irving tickles my fancy.

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John Irving

Remarkably enough, my mother got me interested in this book! Some time in the early/mid 1980s, when she and I were driven by Pops to school and work every day, she reached over the back seat to hand me a Reader's Digest condensed book. "You might find this interesting! It's so crazy, all the cussing!" In it was a reduced form of Irving's Hotel New Hampshire, which I immediately fell in love with. (I went out and got my own copy of the original that weekend!) I still choose to think Mom's sly…

As a thought experiment, imagine a novel by an author you never heard of whose story comprises a coming-of-age tale in which the main character is educated in a Vermont prep school. Although his father may still be alive somewhere, the boy lives in the shadow of his handsome stepfather and his remote, disapproving mother. Various colorful relatives and townspeople circle in orbit around him. Fascinated by members of the school’s wrestling team, he later becomes a wrestler himself. In his…

Image courtesy City of Edinburgh Council – Libraries Thanks to a posting by Stuart Tedham over on the Remembering the Franklin Expedition Facebook page, we now can look upon a never-before-noticed photographic image of Lieutenant John Irving. Because the family name was sometimes spelt "Irvine," and the photo was catalogued under that name, it had been missed by generations of Franklin scholars. It's appropriate, indeed, that Mr. Tedham -- who hails from Dumfries and Galloway -- rediscovered…

The Imaginary Girlfriend book by John Irving

Today on The Tattooed Book I review Until I Find You by John Irving, an award-winning American author and ex-professional wrestler who’s published fourteen novels including The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany. His novel Cider House Rules was adapted into a film of the same name featuring Michael Caine, for which Irving won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Until I Find You came to my attention while I was looking for novels with themes around tattoos...