Authors:Clarence Irving Lewis, John D. Goheen, John L. Mothe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: lewis, irving, clarence, papers, collected
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 1970-08-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0804707170
ISBN-13: 9780804707176

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, year, one, widow
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0345469011
ISBN-13: 9780345469014

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. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.The second window into Ruth’s life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, wh

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: sneed, piggy, save, trying
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-02-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0345404742
ISBN-13: 9780345404749

"Supple and energetic as a stylist, Mr. Irving also knows just how to create in the reader’s mind a vivid impression of an existing world *and just how to populate it." *The New York Times Book Review"CANDID . . . COLORFUL . . . Those who have followed John Irving’s writing career will delight in his newest, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. . . . Readers will leave this book feeling as if they have had a terrific conversation with Irving about why he writes and how he goes about it." *USA Today"[THIS] NEWEST BOOK IS A FIRST FOR IRVING: a collection of memoirs, short fiction, and essays.

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: circle, reader, ballantine, girlfriend, imaginary
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345458265
ISBN-13: 9780345458261

“The Imaginary Girlfriend is a miniature autobiography detailing Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling. . . . Tales of encounters with writers (John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut) are intertwined with those about his wrestling teammates and coaches. With humor and compassion, [Irving] details the few truly important lessons he learned about writing. . . . And in beefing up his narrative with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels, Irving combines the lessons of both obsessions (wrestling and writing) . . . into a somber reflection on the

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0345479726
ISBN-13: 9780345479723

At over 800 pages, John Irving’s Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can’t forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving’s work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: rules, house, cider
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 1997-06-23
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0345417941
ISBN-13: 9780345417947

First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving’s sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud’s, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch’s favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

Author: John Irving
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: sneed, piggy, save, trying
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1996-02-14
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1559703237
ISBN-13: 9781559703239

One dozen short works by the best-selling author of The World According to Garp include the title piece, a loving portrait of the author’s grandmother, and additional stories under such headings as "The Pension Grillparzer" and "Dinner at the White House." 150,000 first printing.