John Irving
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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 Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them in this tale...
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English
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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...
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English
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The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving-now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single mom...
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English
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The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.”
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s...
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s...
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[2005]
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English
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When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead -- has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master. Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada...
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Notable Novels: 1980s
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A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp
“His most entertaining novel since Garp.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.”—The...
“His most entertaining novel since Garp.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.”—The...
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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Tells a compelling and heartwarming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs. Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.
17) Metoda wodna
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Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka - Prószyński Media
Pub. Date
2018.
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Polish
Description
Kłopoty z moczowodem, praca nad tłumaczeniem poematu z języka staro-dolno-nordyjskiego, afera narkotykowa... to tylko przykłady skrajnie odległych motywów, które występują obok siebie w tej powieści i zapewne doprowadziłyby do jej artystycznej katastrofy, gdyby autorem "Metody wodnej" nie był Irving. Pod jego piórem, przywykłym do sprawiania niespodzianek, motywy te bez trudu układają się w spójną całość - arcypoważną komedię...
18) Zanim cię znajdę
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Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Polish
Description
The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shape him are his relationships with...
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Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
Intrygująca, niejednoznaczna powieść, stawiająca pytanie o sens przekraczania ustalonych norm moralnych, a zarazem niepozbawiona charakterystycznego Irvingowskiego humoru. Wbrew temu, co zdaje się sugerować tytuł, nie jest to książka o jednym, ale o dwóch małżeństwach, których wzajemne relacje, zrazu niewinne i czysto przyjacielskie, przeradzają się z czasem w związek o znacznie intymniejszym...
20) Czwarta ręka
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Publisher
Prószyński i S-ka
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Polish
Description
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.