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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Homer ist anders als die anderen Kinder im Saint-Cloud's Waisenhaus: Er will nicht weg. Nach vier gescheiterten Adoptionsversuchen erlaubt Dr. Larch ihm daher, zu bleiben - unter der Bedingung, daß er im Waisenhaus mit angeschlossener...

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,...

The World According To Garp

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...

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice?not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I...