John Irving

Hotel New Hampshire je román amerického spisovatele Johna Irvinga, vydaný v roce 1981 v USA. Autor jej věnoval své první manželce Shyle. Celkově pátý vydaný román Johna Irvinga je nekonvenční rodinnou ságou Berryů, v níž otec rodiny Win Berry touží vést dobrý hotel. Román vznikl přepracovaním a rozšířením povídky …

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.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old …

Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. To open this spirited collection, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years ending with a homage to Charles Dickens. This irresistible collection …

Poslední noc na klikaté řece román amerického spisovatele Johna Irvinga, vydaný v roce 2009 v USA. Z anglického originálu Last Night in Twisted River do češtiny přeložili Libuše a Luboš Trávničkovi.