John Irving

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 …

O Estranho Mundo de Garp é o quarto romance do escritor americano John Irving. Publicado em 1978, o livro foi um best-seller por diversos anos. Uma adaptação para o cinema do romance, com o ator Robin Williams, foi lançada em 1982, com roteiro de Steve Tesich.

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 …