John Irving Libri

Nel mezzo di frutteti di meli, in una fertile regione del Maine, inizia l'odissea di Homer Wells. Dopo diverse esperienze traumatiche con i genitori adottivi, diventa parte integrante dell'orfanotrofio di St. Cloud's e, in quanto più grande dei ragazzi, impara ad aiutare le donne, giovani e anziane, a far fronte alle loro preoccupazioni. Il suo mentore è Wilbur Larch, il fondatore dell'orfanotrofio, un medico che conduce una personale crociata contro il male, spesso in conflitto con la legge. Seguiamo la storia di Homer, il suo desiderio di essere utile, il periodo di apprendistato nell'orfanotrofio, gli anni da adulto nella cidreria, il suo strano rapporto con la moglie del migliore amico, e i continui abbandoni e ritorni.

It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school. Only Mr. Terupt, their new and energetic teacher, seems to know how to deal with them all. He makes the classroom a fun place, even if he doesn’t let them get away with much . . . until the snowy winter day when an accident changes everything—and everyone. Source: robbuyea.com

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 invalidi.Vent’anni fa, a Goa, il dottor Daruwalla eseguì l’autopsia di due morti ammazzati. Ora vent’anni dopo, ritroverà l’assassino.

Editori, assassini, campioni di lotta libera, donne dalla lingua mozzata, orsi che si allenano con l'uniciclo e soprattutto lo stralunato Garp che cerca invano di costruirsi un mondo o, per lo meno, di tollerare quello in cui è costretto a vivere.

Il romanzo di John Irving è, prima di tutto, l'insolita storia d'amore tra un'artista canadese del tatuaggio, Alice, e un organista con l'ossessione di farsi tatuare tutto il corpo, William. A ricostruirla è il figlio della coppia, Jack Burns, destinato a diventare un celebre attore di Hollywood, che conosce il padre solo attraverso i racconti della madre. Dopo la morte di Alice, Jack scopre che la donna nascondeva molti misteri e si mette alla ricerca del padre.

Focusing on Mozart's renowned string quartets, this guide highlights the composer's deep friendship with Joseph Haydn, who greatly influenced his work. It explores the musical intricacies and emotional depth of these quartets, offering insights into their historical context and significance. The book serves as both an analysis and appreciation of Mozart's contributions to chamber music, making it a valuable resource for music enthusiasts and scholars alike.

John Irving's first children's book, illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann, features text from his novel "A Widow For One Year."

Surgically, but with wit Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia.

This collection features the first three novels of this highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. Compassionate, satirical, deeply insightful and humorous, these compelling novels have gained him millions of fans. Setting Free the Bears : Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Astride a 700cc royal Enfield motorcycle, they roamed the Austrian countryside. When Gallen, a lovely hitchhiker, joined them, they zeroed in on the Vienna Zoo--and Siggy's setting free the bears! The Water-Method Man : The acclaimed second novel by the author of the #1 international bestseller, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Fred "Bogus" Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, he stubbornly clings to the notion he'll make something of his life. The 158 Pound Marriage : Sometimes they looked at each other, aroused half out of their minds by the thought that each had just been making love with another, and it would be enough to make them want to do it--together--all over again. Well, almost enough.

An LGBTQ-inclusive story about understanding your peers, your feelings, and yourself, The Wishing Flower is a love letter to longing, belonging, and longing to belong. Birdie finds comfort in nature and books, but more than anything she longs for connection, to be understood. At school, Birdie feels like an outsider. Quiet and shy, she prefers to read by herself, rather than jump rope or swing with the other kids. That all changes when Sunny, the new girl, comes along. Like Birdie, Sunny has a nature name. She also likes to read, and loves to rescue bugs. And when Sunny smiles at her, Birdie’s heart balloons like a parachute. From the acclaimed author of Dance Like a Leaf, with stunning illustrations by Kip Alizadeh, this book will inspire readers to honor their wishes and show the world their truest selves.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' From the novel's taut opening sentence to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life lived in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Widow for One Year and The Cider House Rules.

John Irving hat sie als seine liebste Geschichte bezeichnet: Ein Mann, der auf den Händen geht, ein Bär auf einem Einrad – das sind nur zwei der Seltsamkeiten, die dem Hotelinspektor begegnen, der zusammen mit seiner Familie in der Pension Grillparzer, Wien, Ecke Planken- und Seilergasse absteigt, um zu prüfen, ob sie eine höhere Klassifikation verdient. Dem Irving-Leser sind sie vertraut: Die kurze Erzählung 'The Pension Grillparzer', 1976 erschienen und später in 'The World According to Garp' eingebaut, enthält Irvings ganzen erzählerischen Kosmos in nuce, ist verrückt, skurril, phantastisch und damit bester Irving für Einsteiger. Beigegeben sind Irvings 'notes' zu seiner Story.

An elderly bisexual man looks back upon his life and romances, reflecting on his unfulfilled loves and broken dreams.

From the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, a novel about an acclaimed writer which examines three critical moments of her life. The first part deals with an incident in the Hamptons when she is a toddler, the second is concerned with a crisis in her romantic life, and the third with her adjustments to motherhood and life without her husband.

The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first.... "Three or four times as funny as most novels." THE NEW YORKER

"The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler"--Publisher's description

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.

From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. It is a world in which to immerse himself, a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad; another fails to happen; and, finally, he meets a woman who enthrals, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose, All That Is fiercely, fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change: a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, of the small shocks and grand pleasures of being alive. All That Is is a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime and draws together the great themes of Salter's writing: warfare, love, sex and marriage, and what it means to write.

After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author's account of the novel-to- film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving's incomparable wit and style. schovat popis

Novels

Written Between 1965 And 1967, Setting Free The Bears Is 'Sensual, Moving, Truly Remarkable' (Time), And Concerns A Plot To Release All The Animals From The Vienna Zoo.

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years -- a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time -- among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

Roman om to ægtepars ménage-à-quatre, fortalt af den ene ægtemand

"As we grow older--most of all, in what we remember and what we dream--we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. "An aura of fate had marked him," John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. "The chain of events, the links in our lives--what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do--all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious." Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past--in Mexico--collides with his future"--

15 berühmte Schriftsteller erzählen ein sommerliches Ferienstück, in dem - so die einzige Bedingung - eine blaurote Luftmatratze vorkommen muss. Illustriert von internationalen Starzeichnern stellt sich beim Lesen dieses Buches unweigerlich ein Gefühl von Sommer-Sonne-blauer-Himmel ein. Man wähnt sich schmökernd auf einer sanft schaukelnden Luftmatratze. Einer blauroten, versteht sich.

Das Buch, das eine ganze Reisebibliothek ersetzt und noch in jeden Koffer passt. Das Ferienlesebuch 2004 mit vergnüglichen und spannenden Erzählungen großer Autorinnen und Autoren. Mit wasserfester Schutzhülle.

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John Irving über Günter Grass und Elisabeth Mann Borgese, über Marcel Reich-Ranicki und Hunde, die Klavier spielen können. Ein Stimmungsbericht über das Deutschland der neunziger Jahre.

Zwei Paare beschließen, es einmal mit Partnertausch zu versuchen. Ein mittelgewichtiger Versuch, mit dem schwergewichtigen Problem der Ehe fertigzuwerden und wieder gefährlich zu leben. Anfangs scheint auch alles zu klappen, doch dann entpuppt sich einer der Vier als Spielverderber, die Vierecksgeschichte entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem Kampf hinter verschlossenen Türen, mit schmerzlichen Folgen. "

Hrsg. von Küver, Martina und Tebbe, Thomas, mit Beiträgen von Brown, Rita Mae; Lessing, Doris; Irving, John. 377 Seiten.

Opisując z pozoru nieprawdopodobne perypetie swoich niezapomnianych bohaterów, John Irving piętrzy i ujmuje w karykaturalnym skrócie problemy, lęki i zagrożenia obecne we współczesnym świecie. Z wyrozumiałością, choć w krzywym zwierciadle, ukazuje nasze – zwykle żałosne – próby zapanowania nad żywiołem, który nas przerasta: życiem. John Irving (ur. 1942) – jeden z najwybitniejszych amerykańskich pisarzy. Debiutował w 1968 roku powieścią „Uwolnić niedźwiedzie”. Jego czwarta książka, „Świat według Garpa”, przyniosła mu rozgłos na skalę światową, została też z sukcesem sfilmowana.

Die Jubiläums-Edition: 12 erfolgreiche Diogenes Bücher in einmaliger Ausstattung zum einmaligen Preis zum Start des Jubiläums am 1. Juni 2002. Alfred Andersch: Der Vater eines Mörders. Paulo Coelho: Der Dämon und Fräulein Prym. Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Labyrinth / Turmbau. Stoffe I-IX. Patricia Highsmith: Der süße Wahn. John Irving: Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag. Donna Leon: Venezianisches Finale Ingrid Noll: Der Hahn ist tot. Bernhard Schlink: Der Vorleser Georges Simenon: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah. Patrick Süskind: Das Parfum. Andrzej Szczypiorski: Die schöne Frau Seidenman. Urs Widmer: Der Geliebte der Mutter.