A Prayer For Owen Meany
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-05-10
A Prayer For Owen Meany written by John Irving and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with Fiction categories.
'A work of genius' Independent 'Marvellously funny . . . What better entertainment is there than a serious book which makes you laugh?' Spectator 'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother, their lives are changed in an instant. It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God's instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all. Discover the funny yet poignant classic by the bestselling author of The World According to Garp. 'So extraordinary, so original, and so enriching' Stephen King, The Washington Post 'May justly join the classic American list' Anthony Burgess, Observer
A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
A Prayer For Owen Meany written by John Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literature categories.
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-03-13
A Prayer For Owen Meany written by John Irving and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-13 with Fiction categories.
“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” —STEPHEN KING, Washington Post 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, 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. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A Prayer For Owen Meany
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1989
A Prayer For Owen Meany written by John Irving and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
A story of friendship through adversity, faith and destiny, and the search for God.
My Ideal Bookshelf
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Author : Thessaly La Force
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2012-11-13
My Ideal Bookshelf written by Thessaly La Force and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Literary Collections categories.
The books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. Contributors include Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Keller, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Maira Kalman, Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, Miranda July, Alex Ross, Nancy Pearl, David Chang, Patti Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Dave Eggers, among many others. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this is a perfect gift for avid readers, writers, and all who have known the influence of a great book.
The World According To Garp
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010
The World According To Garp written by John Irving and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
A Son Of The Circus
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2009-09-23
A Son Of The Circus written by John Irving and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-23 with Fiction categories.
A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp “His most entertaining novel since Garp.”—The New York Times Book Review “A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] 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 call his own. . . . The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement—a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries.”—New York Newsday “His most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.”—Bharati Mukherjee, The Washington Post Book World “Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace. . . . [He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car. . . . His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing.”—The Wall Street Journal “Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.”—Chicago Tribune BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's In One Person.
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
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Author : Michael Chabon
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-12-20
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Fiction categories.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 1996
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed written by John Irving and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs - two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend", is the core of this collection. The middle section of the book is fiction. In 28 years, John Irving has written eight novels - but only a half-dozen short stories that he considers "finished"; they are all published here. In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on Gunter Grass, two on Charles Dickens. To each of the 12 pieces, which cover 30 years of writing, Mr. Irving has contributed his Author's Notes.
Setting Free The Bears
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Author : John Irving
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Setting Free The Bears written by John Irving and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Fiction categories.
“Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.”—Time “Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.”—Saturday Review It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old. “Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey . . . and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot rod through Mr. Irving's book . . . tossing flowers, stealing salt shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives.”—The New York Times