John Irving

Uitgaves

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  Fourth Hand, The (2001)

  The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: How can anyone identify a dream of the future? The answer: Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love. While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion... [meer]
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  Fourth Hand, The (2001)

  The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers... [meer]

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  Widow for One Year, A (1998)

  Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving gave us his ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, about a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character -a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.... [meer]
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  158-Pound Marriage, The (1997)

  The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage à quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though... [meer]
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  Son of the Circus, A (1994)

  Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, the doctor returns to India in Bombay, most of his patients are crippled children. Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla... [meer]
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  Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)

  Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. Following a spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, including 'The Pension Grillparzer', previously only... [meer]

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  Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)

  Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer: "A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can... [meer]

  kortverhalen

Overzicht

roman

• The 158-Pound Marriage (1973)
• A Son of the Circus (1994)
• A Widow for One Year (1998)
• The Fourth Hand (2001)

kortverhaal

• Weary Kingdom (1968)
• Almost in Iowa (1973)
• Brennbar's Rant (1974)
• The Pension Grillparzer (1976)
• Interior Space (1980)
• Other People's Dreams (1982)
• The King of the Novel (1986)
• Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993)