JOHN IRVING

"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." — The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise nov...

Until I Find You is John Irving's eleventh novel: set in Canada and New England, as well as Hollywood and the North Sea ports of Europe, it is epic in scope, and Irving's most ambitious and moving work to date. Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. His father, William, is an E...

A los lectores habituales de John Irving, conocido por sus complejas y largas novelas, quizá les sorprenda descubrir en La novia imaginaria a un autor de narraciones breves, de una simplicidad y de una concisión extraordinarias A los lectores habituales de John Irving , conocido por sus complejas y largas novelas, quizá les sorprenda d...

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Je...

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myria...

Corre el año 1954. La vida en el aserradero de una explotación forestal al norte de New Hampshire no resulta fácil y las desgracias están a la orden del día. Una noche, Dominic Baciagalupo, el cocinero del aserradero, y su hijo Danny, de doce años, se ven obligados a abandonar apresuradamente el lugar cuando Danny, en un fatal accidente, mata a ...

The incredible new novel from John Irving, reminiscent of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany

Al hospital St Al hospital St. Cloud´s se acercan muchas parejas o mujeres solas en situaciones desesperadas, dispuestas a abortar o abandonar a un hijo no deseado, que ponen en manos de un médico modélico, el doctor Larch . Éste siente un cariño especial por Homer Wells , su pupilo, al que transmite cuanto sabe de medicina. Homer , ...

Una dona difícil és un tríptic sobre la vida de Ruth Cole. La novel·la s´obre l´estiu de 1958, quan la Ruth tan sols té quatre anys i viu a l´ombra de la separació imminent dels seus pares i els fantasmes dels germans morts. La retrobem al cap de trenta anys, convertida en una novel·lista de renom però insatisfeta. El tríptic...