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'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...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
Juan Diego's 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....
| Автор | John Irving, Джон Уинслоу Ирвинг |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2016 |
Põetaja Jenny Fields otsustab lapse saamiseks magada elu ja surma piirimail vaakuva poolsegase patsiendi tehnik-seersant Garpiga. Üheksa kuud hiljem näeb ilmavalgust T. S. Garp. See on humoorikalt siivutu lugu kuulsast emast, omamoodi feministist, ning peaaegu kuulsast pojast, keda huvitab kirjutamine, seks ja maadlus. Lugeja ette astub veidrate ja armastusväärsete tegelaste armaada, mis teeb „Garpi maailmast“ viimaste aastakümnete ühe menukaima romaani.
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
'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...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
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. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot' It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for "the great zoo bust." But their grand scheme will have both...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
Действие романа Джона Ирвинга, современного классика американской литературы, начинается в Новой Англии в 1920-е годы. В сиротском приюте, который возглавляет доктор Ларч, действует негласный моральный кодекс - правила любви и сострадания. Здесь воспитывается и учится всем премудростям медицины сирота Гомер Уэллс. Однако наступает момент, когда юноша покидает приют, познаёт любовь и знакомится с другими правилами. Перед ним встаёт вопрос: По каким правилам следует жить в этом мире? Для широкого...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.' Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2010 |
'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand,...
| Автор | John Irving, Irving J |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2011 |
Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2012 |
A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time.
Beautifully written, The World According To Garp is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2018 |
In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.
| Автор | John Irving |
| Год | 2011 |
'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. But her four-year-old son's...
| Автор | John Irving, Джон Уинслоу Ирвинг |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2011 |
Джон Ирвинг – признанный мастер психологической прозы. Мировую известность принес ему роман «Мир от Гарпа», хорошо известный и российскому читателю. «Правила Дома сидра» можно назвать семейной сагой на новый лад, «Дэвидом Копперфильдом» или «Джейн Эйр» наоборот. Сирота без роду и племени обретает свой семейный очаг, но дом уже не является той крепостью, за стенами которой можно укрыться от бурь и катаклизмов нашего жестокого века. На смену жизненным правилам, призванным обеспечить честную и...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 1999 |
Джон Ирвинг – признанный мастер психологической прозы. Мировую известность принес ему роман «Мир от Гарпа», хорошо известный и российскому читателю. «Правила Дома сидра» можно назвать семейной сагой на новый лад, «Дэвидом Копперфильдом» или «Джейн Эйр» наоборот. Сирота без роду и племени обретает свой семейный очаг, но дом уже не является той крепостью, за стенами которой можно укрыться от бурь и катаклизмов нашего жестокого века. На смену жизненным правилам, призванным обеспечить честную и...
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 1999 |
Действие романа разворачивается в университетской среде одного из восточных штатов. Автор переплетает судьбы двух супружеских пар самым причудливым образом, вскрывая на глазах читателей слой за слоем самые глубинные и темные тайники человеческой личности. Пытаясь вернуть остроту своим эротическим ощущениям, герои идут на смелый эксперимент. Но человеческие отношения не поддаются планированию как простая игра.
| Автор | John Irving |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 2003 |