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Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story “Interior Space.” In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules–a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Last Night in Twisted River is John Irving’s... Read More
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Last Night in Twisted River
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $7.99
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.
This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope...Quite stunning and very ambitious."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"John Irving is an... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $7.99
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.
This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope...Quite stunning and very ambitious."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"John Irving is an... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the author’s most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen. From the accident that... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the author’s most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen. From the accident that... Read more >
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Last Night in Twisted River
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $60.00
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... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $60.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $10.00
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $10.00
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four... Read more >
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eBook.
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Until I Find You
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $15.95
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $15.95
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
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... Read more >
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The World According to Garp
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a... Read more >
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The Cider House Rules
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch–saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud’s, ether addict and abortionist. This is also... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $16.00
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch–saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud’s, ether addict and abortionist. This is also... Read more >
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The World According to Garp
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1990
Price: $7.99
20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
with a new Afterword from the author
The New York Times bestseller
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny
Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death
of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1990
Price: $7.99
20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
with a new Afterword from the author
The New York Times bestseller
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny
Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death
of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Widow for One Year
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $16.00
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $16.00
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
paperback.
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The Cider House Rules
Format: Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: January 9, 1994
Price: $7.99
"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving."
--The Boston Sunday Globe
"The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: January 9, 1994
Price: $7.99
"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving."
--The Boston Sunday Globe
"The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Imaginary Girlfriend
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $13.95
“The Imaginary Girlfriend is a miniature autobiography detailing Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling. . . . Tales of encounters with writers (John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut) are intertwined with those about his wrestling teammates and coaches. With humor and compassion, [Irving] details the few truly important lessons he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $13.95
“The Imaginary Girlfriend is a miniature autobiography detailing Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling. . . . Tales of encounters with writers (John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut) are intertwined with those about his wrestling teammates and coaches. With humor and compassion, [Irving] details the few truly important lessons he... Read more >
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $24.95
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $24.95
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... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $14.95
"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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $14.95
"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... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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A Widow for One Year
Format: Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $7.99
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... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $7.99
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 30, 1995
Price: $7.99
"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... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 30, 1995
Price: $7.99
"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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Fourth Hand
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $7.99
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... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $7.99
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Last Night in Twisted River
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Water-Method Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
"Three or four times as funny... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
"Three or four times as funny... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $14.95
Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. To open this spirited collection, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years ending with a homage to Charles Dickens. This irresistible collection cannot fail to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $14.95
Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. To open this spirited collection, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years ending with a homage to Charles Dickens. This irresistible collection cannot fail to... Read more >
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Setting Free the Bears
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
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A Son of the Circus
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $15.95
"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS...GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE."
--The Boston Globe
"Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $15.95
"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS...GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE."
--The Boston Globe
"Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to... Read more >
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The World According to Garp
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: April 20, 1998
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: April 20, 1998
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The 158-Pound Marriage
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
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 novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 23, 1997
Price: $13.95
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 novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Water-Method Man
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 13, 1990
Price: $7.99
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
"Three or four times as funny... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 13, 1990
Price: $7.99
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
"Three or four times as funny... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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