John Irving

The author's most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was fourteen, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, was certified as a referee at twenty-four,...

Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.

Fred Trumper, a floundering late-twenty-something graduate student with serious commitment and honesty issues that earn him the nickname "Bogus," humorously recounts his various failures in life and love, from his New England childhood through his experiences on foreign study in Vienna, Austria, and as a graduate student in Iowa, leading up to the present-day, early-1970s New York.

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. A tale that...

"Geroĭ romana, gollivudskiĭ akter Dzhek Berns, ros, kak i avtor, ne znai︠a︡ svoego biologicheskogo ott︠s︡a. Matʹ okruzhila ego obraz molchaniem i mistifikat︠s︡ii︠a︡mi. Poiski ott︠s︡a, kotorymi nachinaetsi︠a︡ i zavershaetsi︠a︡ ėta ėpopei︠a︡, opredeli︠a︡i︠u︡t vsi︠u︡ zhiznʹ Dzheka. Krasavet︠s︡, li︠u︡bimet︠s︡ zhenshchin, talantlivyĭ artist, vse svoi roli on igraet dli︠a︡ odnogo-edinstvennogo...

"Nesomnennyĭ klassik sovremennoĭ literatury Zapada i odin iz ee neosporimykh liderov vvergaet chitateli︠a︡ v zerkalʹnyĭ labirint otrazheniĭ: strakhi iz detskikh knizhek nekogda populi︠a︡rnogo pisateli︠a︡ Teda Koula neozhidanno obrastai︠u︡t plotʹi︠u︡, i vot uzhe monstr iz skazki prevrashchaetsi︠a︡ v realʹnogo manʹi︠a︡ka-ubiĭt︠s︡u, chtoby pochti cherez sorok let dochʹ pisateli︠a︡, tozhe pisatelʹnit︠s︡a,...

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character- a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her - on Long Island, in the summer of 1958 - Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as...