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Название: THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
Год: 2013 Страниц: 704 Формат: PDF
Размер: 24.64 mb
Жанр: Transworld Publishers
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Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder — a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether.Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especically Homer Wells. It is Homer's story we follow, from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend.
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Название: A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2012 Страниц: 617 Формат: PDF
Размер: 21.60 mb
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
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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 eleven-year-old boys — best friends — are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary.
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Название: IN ONE PERSON
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Формат: DOC
Размер: 11.20 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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«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 of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a «sexual suspect,» a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of «terminal cases,» The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself «worthwhile.»
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Автор: luk14
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Название: A SON OF THE CIRCUS
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
Год: 2008 Страниц: 832 Формат: PDF
Размер: 29.12 mb
Жанр: Transworld Publishers
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The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again — if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen — a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer...
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Автор: hando
:: Просмотров: 3867
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Название: IN ONE PERSON
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
Год: 2005 Страниц: 624 Формат: PDF
Размер: 21.84 mb
Жанр: Transworld Publishers
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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 century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases', The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'.
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Автор: dimse
:: Просмотров: 2475
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Название: THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 1997 Страниц: 401 Формат: PDF
Размер: 14.04 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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«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 myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they «dream on» in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice.»
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Название: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Ballantine Books
Год: 1994 Страниц: 616 Формат: DOC
Размер: 15.40 mb
Жанр: Ballantine Books
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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 Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.
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Название: SETTING FREE THE BEARS
Автор: Irving John
Издательство: Random House, Inc.
Год: 1986 Страниц: 416 Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Random House, Inc.
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Written between 1965 and 1967, Setting Free the Bears is 'sensual, moving, truly remarkable' (Time), and concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
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