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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Category: Fiction
"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 am a Christian because of Owen Meany."In the summer of 1953, two ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Category: Fiction
" 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 am a Christian because of Owen Meany. " In the summer of 1953, ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
Category: Fiction
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 Mexico has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thi ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
Category: Fiction
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Juan Diegoâe(tm)s little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret âe" Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know âe" or to think you know âe" your future, or worse, the future of someone ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
Category: Fiction
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
Category: Fiction
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Category: Fiction
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, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toro ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
Category: Fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Category: Fiction
"'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.'i>omer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest ...Show more