The World According To Garp

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,...

A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp"His most entertaining novel since...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

'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...

The World According to Garp von Irving, John