Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and...

Seine Frau will raus; seine Geliebte will ein Kind. Die Beschwerden, die er sich bei seiner einstigen Babysitterin geholt hat, machen ihm das Lieben zur Qual. Der Filmemacher, für den er arbeitet, will sein Leben verfilmen: als...

Winner of the National Book Award"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it." -The New Republic"Wonderful…full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking." -Washington Post Powerful and political, with...

Bis ich dich finde ist die Geschichte des Schauspielers Jack Burns. Seine Mutter ist Tätowiererin, sein Vater ein Organist, der verschwunden ist. Ein Roman über Obsessionen und Freundschaften; über fehlende Väter und (zu) starke Mütter;...

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long...

'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice,...

A deluxe collector's edition of John Irving's beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany?a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.In the summer of 1953, two...

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego-a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in...

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.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life....

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...

Ein Geräusch, wie wenn einer versucht, kein Geräusch zu machen schildert das Abenteuer eines tapferen kleinen Jungen, der schlecht träumt und sich mitten in der Nacht mit seinem Vater auf Monstersuche macht, denn das Geräusch, das er...

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,...