'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...

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...

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...

?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...

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New...

"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications."-The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New...

"Last Night in Twisted River" von John Irving ist ein komplexer Roman, der sich über mehrere Jahrzehnte erstreckt und die Geschichte von Daniel Baciagalupo und seinem Vater Dominic erzählt. Die Handlung beginnt in den 1950er Jahren in...

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...

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...

"A Prayer for Owen Meany" von John Irving erzählt die Geschichte von Johnny Wheelwright und seinem besten Freund Owen Meany, die in einer kleinen Stadt in New Hampshire aufwachsen. Der Roman beginnt in den 1950er Jahren und erstreckt...