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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Novelist and screenwriter John Irving has published more than a dozen books – he is perhaps best known for his first novel, “The World According to Garp."

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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…

Read 16.4k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New H…

‘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 [...]

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by John Irving "But every time we rode the train to Sawyer Depot, my mother and I weighed the advantages of sitting on the left-hand side of the train so that we could see Mt. Chocorua - or on the right-hand side of the train, so that we could see Ossipee Lake. Chocorua was our first indication of how much snow there would be where we were going but there's more visible activity around a lake than there is on a mountian-and so we would sometimes "opt for Ossipee," as Mother and I described…