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| 1. The Water-Method Man by John Irving | |
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(1997-06-23)
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| 2. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving | |
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(1997-02-11)
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The short stories range in quality."Weary Kingdom" was Irving's first published work and is a long, dull story (not even the author really likes it)."Interior Space" is my favorite, but even it is not as good as some of Irving's novels. The homages to Dickens and Grass are somewhat interesting.I decided to give "Great Expectations" a try since Irving said that's the book that really made him want to write.I doubt it will have the same effect on me. The biggest flaw in my opinion was that the publisher put the notes AFTER the various pieces of writing.I always read those first just to get the background of the story before I read it.For example, it helped me tolerate "Weary Kingdom" when I saw that it was really Irving's first piece of published writing. At any rate, I recommend skipping this garage sale and sticking with Irving's novels.If you read this in the hope of understanding the author better, you will be disappointed as I was. ... Read more | |
| 3. The Imaginary Girlfriend (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving | |
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(2002-12-03)
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| 4. The Fourth Hand by John Irving | |
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(2003-04-29)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com's Best of 2001 Television reporter Patrick Wallingford becomes a story himself when he loses his hand to a caged lion while in India covering a circus. The moment is captured live on film, and Patrick (who wears a "perpetual but dismaying smile--the look of someone who knows he's met you before but can't recall the exact occasion") is henceforth known as the lion guy. Before long, plans are made to equip Patrick with a new hand. Doctor Nicholas M. Zajac, superstar surgeon, indefatigable dog-poop scooper, runner, and part-time father, is poised to perform the operation. But the donor--or rather the widow of the donor--has a few stipulations. Doris Clausen wants to meet the one-handed reporter before the procedure, and insists on visitation rights afterward. Irving weaves these characters and a panoply of others together in a smart, funny, readable narrative. Often farcical, The Fourth Hand is ultimately something more: a tender chronicle of the redemptive power of love. --Victoria Jenkins Customer Reviews (276)
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| 5. Until I Find You: A Novel by John Irving | |
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(2006-05-30)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Jack Burns, the hero ofthe tale, is four years old when it all begins.He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict."By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy. Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time.There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again.By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women.His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever.There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears.Maybe bears would have saved it.There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on. Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping.His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy.Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own.Call it a reward.--Valerie Ryan Customer Reviews (246)
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| 6. John Irving: Three Complete Novels: Setting Free The Bears, The Water-Method Man, The 158-Pound marriage by John Irving | |
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(1995-05-21)
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Editorial Review catalog copy and individual title synopsis Setting Free the Bears: Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Astride a 700cc royal Enfield motorcycle, they roamed the Austrian countryside. When Gallen, a lovely hitchhiker, joined them, they zeroed in on the Vienna Zoo--and Siggy's dream: setting free the bears! The Water-Method Man: The acclaimed second novel by the author of the #1 international bestseller, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Fred "Bogus" Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, he stubbornly clings to the notion he'll make something of his life. The 158 Pound Marriage: Sometimes they looked at each other, aroused half out of their minds by the thought that each had just been making love with another, and it would be enough to make them want to do it--together--all over again. Well, almost enough. | |
| 7. A Son of the Circus by John Irving | |
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(1999-04)
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| 8. The Cider House Rules by John Irving | |
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(1986)
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| 9. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library) by John Irving | |
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(2002-06-04)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God. --Tim Appelo Customer Reviews (1050)
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| 10. Setting Free the Bears by John Irving | |
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(1997-06-23)
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Well the plot itself is rather strange and somewhat incomprehensible.A young Austrian college student bumps into a very quirky fellow, and together the tour Austria on motorcycle.Just when you think the book will turn into a funny road story with an Austrian twist the author decides to split the story in two, with the a narrative of the main character camped out at a zoo and his strange friend narrating his (pre-war) family history.Very disappointing, and very dull.The ending concludes in comical fashion back at the zoo.But this fun ending is too little, too late. Bottom line: a very amateurish effort by the often outstanding John Irving.A definite miss. ... Read more | |
| 11. Setting Free the Bears by John Irving | |
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(1997-06-23)
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Well the plot itself is rather strange and somewhat incomprehensible.A young Austrian college student bumps into a very quirky fellow, and together the tour Austria on motorcycle.Just when you think the book will turn into a funny road story with an Austrian twist the author decides to split the story in two, with the a narrative of the main character camped out at a zoo and his strange friend narrating his (pre-war) family history.Very disappointing, and very dull.The ending concludes in comical fashion back at the zoo.But this fun ending is too little, too late. Bottom line: a very amateurish effort by the often outstanding John Irving.A definite miss. ... Read more | |
| 12. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | |
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(1989)
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| 13. A Widow for One Year by John Irving | |
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(2004-06-01)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com We first meet Ruth Cole in the summer of 1958 when she walks in on her mother having sex with 16-year-old Eddie O'Hare, the assistant to Ruth's alcoholic father. The death of Ruth's older brothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into a zombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter. Ted Cole is a semisuccessful writer and illustrator of disturbingly creepy children's novels. His womanizing habits prove he's "as deceitful as a damaged condom," but he remains the only stable figure in Ruth's life. The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 when Ruth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lackluster love life. The final segment of the novel ends in 1995 when 41-year-old Ruth is ready to fall in love for the first time. This profoundly absorbing story expresses the depths of misery and the healing power of love. Irving writes as a true storyteller, and Guidall executes the narrative with vigor and enthusiasm. (Running time: 24.5 hours, 14 cassettes) --Gina Kaysen Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character. 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 critical time in her life. When we first meet her -- in the Hamptons in the summer of 1958 -- Ruth is only four. Her parents, having suffered the loss of two children before Ruth was born, are still haunted by their memories of these unspeakable deaths; now Ruth's mother is having an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy, while her father sleeping with someone else's wife. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is a renowned author -- and an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. Ruth distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in tile autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a widow and a mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Customer Reviews (576)
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| 14. The World According to Garp (Modern Library) by John Irving | |
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(1998-04-20)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart.Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character. In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him? Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad." All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo Customer Reviews (280)
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| 15. The World According to Garp by John IRVING | |
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(1978)
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| 16. El Mundo Segun Garp / The World According to Garp by John Irving | |
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(2002-06-01)
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| 17. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving | |
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(1999-04)
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