John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met...

"Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition" von John Irving ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, autobiografischen Essays und Memoiren. Die Erzählungen bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in Irvings literarisches Schaffen...

'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...