John Irving

Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving's understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the 1960s. The …

John Irving's third and perhaps darkest novel, The 158-Pound Marriage examines the sexual revolution-era trend of "swinging" via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences.

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 Water Method Man is the second published novel by American novelist John Irving. A little-known fact about this novel is that Irving, for a time, considered making the "Old Low Norse" poem, "Akthelt and Gunnel", into his actual second novel. It was going to be called, Love Among the Greths. But after reading about …

Uno dei primi e migliori romanzi di Irving oggi in ebook.Nato in India, a Bombay, studente di medicina a Vienna, il dottor Farrokh Daruwalla è un chirurgo ortopedico cinquantanovenne, con nazionalità canadese e residenza a Toronto. Torna regolarmente a Bombay dove i suoi pazienti sono quasi tutti bambini …

'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named …

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Hotel New Hampshire è un romanzo del 1981, scritto da John Irving.

“Non piangere tesoro. Siamo soltanto Eddie ed io.” Marion non riesce a trovare altra risposta allo sguardo della figlia Ruth, quattro anni, quando questa la sorprende in intima compagnia del giovane Eddie. È l’estate del 1958, la prima tappa della vita di Ruth, segnata dall’impossibile relazione con la madre, in …

Le regole della casa del sidro è un romanzo scritto da John Irving e pubblicato nell 1985, dal quale è stato tratto anche un omonimo film nel 1999 diretto da Lasse Hallström. Si tratta della storia di un giovane orfano, Homer Wells, e della sua vita all'interno dell'orfanotrofio di St.Cloud's, prima, e in un frutteto …