While playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother, and he becomes convinced that he is an instrument of God, in a new edition of Irving's seventh novel, featuring a new introduction by the author. 20,000 first printing.[...]

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

with a new Afterword from the author



The New York Timesbestseller



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 li[...]

As an undying Xombi, David Kim watches the world burn while humanity grows increasingly isolated. What would a Xombi do just to feel change again? And where will he ever be able to find a kindred soul? Find out in this title collecting XOMBI #1-6 and BRAVE AND THE BOLD #26, featuring a team-up with [...]

John C. Calhoun was a rare figure in American history: a lifelong politician who was also a profound political philosopher. Vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he was a dominant presence in the U.S. Senate. Now comes a major new biography from the author of Daniel Webster.[...]

Written by Mike Carey Art by Leonardo Manco & Frazer Irving Cover by Tim Bradstreet Collecting HELLBLAZER #207-215! One of Constantine's blunders proves disastrous for a loved one, forcing him to ally himself with the last person he would choose. The path Constantine finds himself on leads directly[...]

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John Irvings nya roman, enligt många kritiker hans allra bästa, är ytterligare ett prov på den berättarkonst som gjort honom känd över hela världen. Och Sista natten i Twisted River är tvivelsutan ett mäktigt bygge, fyllt av den för Irving så typis[...]

"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, [...]

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 instrum[...]

Written by Teachit contributors and OCR examiners, GCSE English for OCR is the most comprehensive and accessible endorsed support package for the 2010 OCR GCSE English curriculum. This student book covers foundation and higher levels, delivering the controlled assessment and exam requirements in a w[...]

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....

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"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 wit[...]

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 irr[...]

"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 [...]