Džons Ērvings

"Garpa pasaule" ir ASV rakstnieka Džona Ērvinga romāns. Pirmo reizi izdots 1978. gadā. Romāns kļuva par kultūras notikumu, kā arī par starptautisku bestselleru. Tas tika izvirzīts Nacionālai daiļliteratūras grāmatu balvai National Book Award for Fiction jau 1979. gadā, un Ērvings nokļuva starp finālistiem. Tomēr balvu …

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 …

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 …