John Irving

La novela que dio a conocer a John Irving en el mundo entero.En 1942, tras un episodio escandaloso, Jenny Fields, una joven bostoniana de buena familia, abandona la seguridad del hogar para ser enfermera y vivir su vida. En circunstancias peculiares, concibe a un niño al que llama Garp, a secas. Madre e hijo, se abren paso, sin mas armas que su propia energia, en un mundo de hipocresia, inhibiciones y violencia. Poco a poco, con los años, Jenny y Garp van diseñando su propio universo en medio de esa hostilidad inevitable en la que siempre acecha la sombra del Sapo Sumergido. Lo van poblando de personajes excentricos, cuyas historias estrafalarias van dando forma a ese mundo de Garp un poco desquiciado, pero en el que todos parecen convivir en cierto armonico equilibrio, en un sistema tribal que, al final, ha ocupado por completo el lugar del antiguo hogar de Jenny. El mundo segun Garp es, de hecho, el mundo tal como lo conocemos. La unica diferencia, es que Garp, que es escritor, se arriesga con humor alli donde nosotros, menos curiosos, nos inhibimos.

La última gran novela de John Irving, una historia majestuosa de amor y de familia que es también un emocionante alegato a favor de la libertad.«Poderosamente cinematográfica.» The Washington Post «A

Personas como yo, de John Irving, que ha escrito otros libros como Hasta que te encuentre o La novia imaginaria, es una absorbente novela de narrativa extranjera sobre el deseo y la identidad sexual, una tragicomica historia de un amor frustrado que recorre mas de medio siglo. En los años cincuenta del pasado siglo, en el pequeño teatro de aficionados de la localidad de First Sister, en el estado de Vermont, al adolescente Billy Dean le toca interpretar papeles complicados, pero nunca seran tan dificiles como los que tendra que interpretar en el gran teatro de la vida. Personas como yo es la decimotercera novela de John Irving, y su obra mas comprometida desde Las normas de la Casa de la Sidra, El mundo segun Garp y Oracion por Owen.A sus trece años, su dia a dia cambia por completo al conocer al atractivo Richard Abbott, su futuro padrastro, y a la señorita Frost, la maravillosa bibliotecaria del pueblo, quien acaba convirtiendose en su complice en un mundo hostil. A medida que avanzan los cursos escolares, y mientras se convierte en escritor, Billy se embarca en la busqueda de su identidad sexual: ¿es posible que le guste el chico mas canalla de la clase y, al mismo tiempo, la despampanante bibliotecaria? ¿Existen personas como el? Entretanto, aumentan sus deseos de conocer a su verdadero padre. Tardara toda una vida en dar con el, y sera en Madrid.Una novela atrevida, de alto voltaje politico, que destila ternura, y perdon, y amor: entre padres e hijos, entre amantes y entre amigos. TimeUna comedia sexual con tripas y corazon. The IndependentHay mucho talento en esta valiente novela que, como dice Prospero, redime de todo pecado. The Washington Post

«La novel·la més entretinguda i contundent de John Irving des del seu best-seller El món segons Garp». The New York TimesUna dona difícil és un tríptic sobre la vida de Ruth Cole. La novel·la s''obre

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.

La novela que dio a conocer a John Irving en el mundo entero.En 1942, tras un episodio escandaloso, Jenny Fields, una joven bostoniana de buena familia, abandona la seguridad del hogar para ser enfermera y vivir su vida. En circunstancias peculiares, concibe a un niño al que llama Garp, a secas. Madre e hijo, se abren paso, sin mas armas que su propia energia, en un mundo de hipocresia, inhibiciones y violencia. Poco a poco, con los años, Jenny y Garp van diseñando su propio universo en medio de esa hostilidad inevitable en la que siempre acecha la sombra del Sapo Sumergido. Lo van poblando de personajes excentricos, cuyas historias estrafalarias van dando forma a ese mundo de Garp un poco desquiciado, pero en el que todos parecen convivir en cierto armonico equilibrio, en un sistema tribal que, al final, ha ocupado por completo el lugar del antiguo hogar de Jenny. El mundo segun Garp es, de hecho, el mundo tal como lo conocemos. La unica diferencia, es que Garp, que es escritor, se arriesga con humor alli donde nosotros, menos curiosos, nos inhibimos.

"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 the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. "Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice." Time "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book." Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." Cosmopolitan ...

Born a Parsi in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen, an orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, he returns to India. Once 20 years ago, Dr Darwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, he is reacquainted with the murderer.

Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweighta fact not lost on Utch, a lovely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin''s underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires as Irving blends farce and tragedy in another bubbling, brilliant novel.

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.

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.

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.

Juan Diegos little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know or to think you know your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead?Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters.This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.

In his latest novel, John Irving explores - in his inimitable way - the ways in which our pasts reverberate in our presents and, indeed, our futures.Juan Diegos little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know or to think you know your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead?Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters.This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.

Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis, wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. It is a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers. Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think.

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 Toronto_pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

The incredible new novel from John Irving, reminiscent of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany