#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWhile reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon...

Leider konnte keine Information über ein Buch namens "Aleja tajemnic" von John Irving gefunden werden. Es ist möglich, dass der Titel falsch geschrieben wurde oder das Buch nicht existiert. John Irving ist ein bekannter amerikanischer...

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main...

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met...

"Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition" von John Irving ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, autobiografischen Essays und Memoiren. Die Erzählungen bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in Irvings literarisches Schaffen...

World according to Garp von Irving, John

The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp."The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was...

"The Cider House Rules" von John Irving erzählt die Geschichte von Homer Wells, einem Waisenjungen, der in einem Waisenhaus in St. Cloud's, Maine, aufwächst. Das Waisenhaus wird von Dr. Wilbur Larch geleitet, einem Arzt mit einer...

'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'Homer Wells' odyssey...

?A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction?it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . ....

"Widow for One Year" von John Irving ist ein komplexer Roman, der das Leben der Schriftstellerin Ruth Cole über mehrere Jahrzehnte hinweg verfolgt. Die Geschichte ist in drei Teile gegliedert und beginnt im Jahr 1958 mit Ruths Kindheit...

Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know - or to think...