'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'It is 1967 and two Viennese university...

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. von Irving, John

"Garp und wie er die Welt sah" ist ein Roman von John Irving, der das Leben von T. S. Garp, einem fiktiven Schriftsteller, nachzeichnet. Die Geschichte beginnt mit der ungewöhnlichen Zeugung Garps durch seine Mutter Jenny Fields, einer...

A breathtaking story of a father and a son in 20th-century North America from the award-winning author of A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old...

The World According to Garp von Irving, John

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...

"Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir" von John Irving ist eine autobiografische Erzählung, die Einblicke in das Leben und die Karriere des renommierten Autors bietet. In diesem Memoirenwerk verbindet Irving seine Leidenschaft für das...

'Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis', wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. It is a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers. Garp...

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a...

Rettungsversuch für Piggy Sneed: Sechs Erzählungen und ein Essay (detebe)

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'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 led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of...