In One Person Paperback by John Irving
In One Person Paperback by John Irving
Product Details
- Publisher : Vintage Canada (Jan. 29 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0307361799
- ISBN-13 : 9780307361790
- Item weight : 340 g
- Dimensions : 13.69 x 2.44 x 20.29 cm
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny and affecting—and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of the novel's bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott.
In One Person is a glorious ode to sexual difference, a poignant story of a life that no reader will be able to forget, a book that no one else could have written. Utterly contemporary and topical in its themes, In One Person grapples with the mysteries of identity and the multiple tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and with everything that has changed in our sexual life over the last 50 years and everything that still needs to. It's also one of Irving's most sincere and human novels, a book imbued on every page with a spirit of openness that expands and challenges the reader's world.
About Author
JOHN IRVING, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, when he was twenty-six. His most popular novel, worldwide, is A Prayer for Owen Meany, published in 1989. In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for In One Person. In 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mr. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving lives in Toronto.
Author Residence: Toronto, Ontario
Author Hometown: Exeter, New Hampshire
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