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John Irving

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Born
in Exeter, New Hampshire, The United States
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences
Dickens, Hardy, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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September 2011

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JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven.
Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selli ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,096,268 ratings · 51,606 reviews · 153 distinct works • Similar authors
A Prayer for Owen Meany
4.24 avg rating — 329,686 ratings — published 1989 — 215 editions
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The World According to Garp
4.11 avg rating — 234,418 ratings — published 1978 — 304 editions
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The Cider House Rules
4.17 avg rating — 191,041 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions
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The Hotel New Hampshire
3.93 avg rating — 67,404 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions
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A Widow for One Year
3.77 avg rating — 63,735 ratings — published 1998 — 174 editions
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Last Night in Twisted River
3.78 avg rating — 27,531 ratings — published 2009 — 104 editions
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The Fourth Hand
3.33 avg rating — 31,102 ratings — published 2001 — 115 editions
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In One Person
3.70 avg rating — 27,318 ratings — published 2012 — 89 editions
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Until I Find You
3.66 avg rating — 27,215 ratings — published 2005 — 88 editions
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A Son of the Circus
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“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
tags: death, grief, loss
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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.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
tags: life
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“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
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December 2017 New School Read

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pages
 
  56 votes, 16.7%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 468 pages
 
  41 votes, 12.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages
 
  35 votes, 10.4%

 
  34 votes, 10.1%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pages
 
  26 votes, 7.8%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, 647 pages
 
  26 votes, 7.8%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989, 637 pages
 
  25 votes, 7.5%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages
 
  23 votes, 6.9%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pages
 
  20 votes, 6.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages
 
  19 votes, 5.7%

 
  17 votes, 5.1%

So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages
 
  5 votes, 1.5%

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971, 569 pages
 
  5 votes, 1.5%

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

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