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 c[...]

Chronicles the life and times of actor Jack Burns, whose unique bond with his mother, Alice, a Toronto tattoo artist, and their search for his missing father, William, a church organist with an addiction to being tattooed, shapes his relationships with women and his Hollywood career. 350,000 first p[...]

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 [...]

His most political novel since "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," John Irving's "In One Person" is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."Advance praise for John Irving's "In One Person" "This t[...]

"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" ("Vanity Fair").
Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary AwardA "New York Times" bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love tormented, funny, and [...]

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 and 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[...]

We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged in tho[...]

Overdådig og oppfinnsom roman om kokken Dominic Baciagalupo og sønnen Dannys omflakkende liv, på flukt fra en uforsonlig politimann.I 1954, i bakrommet på en liten kafé, i en liten by i New Hampshire, tar en engstelig tolvåring feil av kjæresten til den lokale politimannen og en bjørn. Både[...]

Året er 1955, og Billy Abbot er 13 år gammel og går på drengeskolen First Sister i Vermont i New England. Hans stedfar, Richard Abbott, der er lærer på skolen, står også for de tilbagevendende opsætninger af Shakespeare-stykker, som bliver en stor inspiration for Billy og [...]

Åtrå, hemligheter, crossdressing

I en människa är en roman om åtrå, hemligheter och sexuell identitet, kryddad med kärlek, Shakespeare och crossdressing. Billys episka och tragikomiska uppväxtskildring tar sin början i 1940-talets Vermont och för läsaren genom årtionden, fr�[...]

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T.S Garp misstänkte alltid att han skulle dö ung. "Som min far", skrev Garp. "Jag tror att jag är lagd för att fatta mig kort. En engångsmänniska."

Garp och hans värld är John Irvings numera klassi[...]