John Irving
The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller. Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. In One Person is John Irving's thirteenth novel.
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In One Person
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36179-0 (0-307-36179-9)
January 29, 2013 | $23.00
Written by John Irving
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36179-0 (0-307-36179-9)
January 29, 2013 | $23.00
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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.
John Irving's new novel is a glorious ode...
The Imaginary Girlfriend
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-36197-4 (0-307-36197-7)
May 8, 2012 | $11.99
The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler. It also portrays a father's dedication — Irving coached his two sons to championship titles. It is an illuminating, concise work, a literary treasure.
From...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-36197-4 (0-307-36197-7)
May 8, 2012 | $11.99
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The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler. It also portrays a father's dedication — Irving coached his two sons to championship titles. It is an illuminating, concise work, a literary treasure.
From...
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In One Person
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36178-3 (0-307-36178-0)
May 8, 2012 | $34.95
Written by John Irving
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36178-3 (0-307-36178-0)
May 8, 2012 | $34.95
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“My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me – don’t make me a category before you get to know me!”
John Irving’s new novel 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...
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In One Person
eBook | 576 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36180-6 (0-307-36180-2)
May 8, 2012 | $15.99
Written by John Irving
eBook | 576 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36180-6 (0-307-36180-2)
May 8, 2012 | $15.99
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“My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me – don’t make me a category before you get to know me!”
John Irving’s new novel 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...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
My Movie Business
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-36199-8 (0-307-36199-3)
May 8, 2012 | $13.99
John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels.
My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years Mr. Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of The Cider House Rules, for four different directors...
Written by John Irving
eBook | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-36199-8 (0-307-36199-3)
May 8, 2012 | $13.99
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John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels.
My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years Mr. Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of The Cider House Rules, for four different directors...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
eBook | 544 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36202-5 (0-307-36202-7)
May 8, 2012 | $12.99
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.
Written by John Irving
eBook | 544 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36202-5 (0-307-36202-7)
May 8, 2012 | $12.99
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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.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Son of the Circus
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36200-1 (0-307-36200-0)
May 8, 2012 | $14.99
A Hindi film star and an American missionary are twins separated at birth; a dwarf — a former circus clown — mistakes the missionary for the movie star. And stalking one of them is a serial killer...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36200-1 (0-307-36200-0)
May 8, 2012 | $14.99
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A Hindi film star and an American missionary are twins separated at birth; a dwarf — a former circus clown — mistakes the missionary for the movie star. And stalking one of them is a serial killer...
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36198-1 (0-307-36198-5)
May 8, 2012 | $13.99
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...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36198-1 (0-307-36198-5)
May 8, 2012 | $13.99
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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...
A Widow for One Year
eBook | 558 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36201-8 (0-307-36201-9)
May 8, 2012 | $14.99
Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman — and a faithful wife for twenty-two years — has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.
By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry...
Written by John Irving
eBook | 558 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36201-8 (0-307-36201-9)
May 8, 2012 | $14.99
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Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman — and a faithful wife for twenty-two years — has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.
By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Bantam Classics Editions)
eBook | 976 pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-52964-0 (0-345-52964-2)
December 9, 2010 | $6.99
Two classic Charles Dickens novels now available together in one convenient eBook.
A Tale of Two Cities
Contains an afterword by Stephen Koch.
With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted...
eBook | 976 pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-345-52964-0 (0-345-52964-2)
December 9, 2010 | $6.99
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Two classic Charles Dickens novels now available together in one convenient eBook.
A Tale of Two Cities
Contains an afterword by Stephen Koch.
With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted...
The Fourth Hand
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36649-8 (0-307-36649-9)
July 16, 2010 | $13.99
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...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-36649-8 (0-307-36649-9)
July 16, 2010 | $13.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Last Night in Twisted River
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39837-6 (0-307-39837-4)
June 15, 2010 | $22.00
From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes...
Written by John Irving
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39837-6 (0-307-39837-4)
June 15, 2010 | $22.00
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From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes...
Also available as an
eBook.
Last Night in Twisted River
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37303-8 (0-307-37303-7)
October 20, 2009 | $14.99
From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37303-8 (0-307-37303-7)
October 20, 2009 | $14.99
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From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Until I Find You
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37134-8 (0-307-37134-4)
February 24, 2009 | $14.99
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...
Written by John Irving
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37134-8 (0-307-37134-4)
February 24, 2009 | $14.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Until I Find You
Trade Paperback | 848 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97717-2 (0-676-97717-0)
May 30, 2006 | $23.00
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...
Written by John Irving
Trade Paperback | 848 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97717-2 (0-676-97717-0)
May 30, 2006 | $23.00
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
