John Irving: 91 books

Book cover of My Movie Business
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1999

John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business...
Book cover of A Son of the Circus
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009

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...
Book cover of The Water-Method Man
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

“John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.”—Los Angeles Times Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife...
Book cover of The Imaginary Girlfriend
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013

“Detail[s] Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling . . . with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels” (The Denver Post). Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving’s candid...
Book cover of A Widow for One Year
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1999

“A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.”—USA Today In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth...
Book cover of The World According to Garp
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

**Now available as an ebook for the first time ever in America, the bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving—the 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.  “He is more than popular. He is a Populist, determined to keep alive the Dickensian tradition...
Book cover of The Fourth Hand

The Fourth Hand

A Novel

by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010

The Fourth Handasks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?” The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.” While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions...
Book cover of The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

“Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”—The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The...
Book cover of Setting Free the Bears
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

**“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...
Book cover of Witwe für ein Jahr
by John Irving
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2012

Liebe und Tod, Leidenschaft und Vergänglichkeit, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion sind die Pole, zwischen denen der Puls des neuen Romans von John Irving schlägt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Schriftstellerin Ruth Cole, eine starke und verletzliche Frau, die mit ihren Büchern Erfolg und mit ihren Freunden...
Book cover of Owen Meany
by John Irving
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2012

John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die bewegende Geschichte der einzigartigen Freundschaft zwischen Owen Meany und John Wheelwright. Man schreibt den Sommer 1953, die beiden elfjährigen...
Book cover of Die imaginäre Freundin

Die imaginäre Freundin

Vom Ringen und Schreiben

by John Irving
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2012

Von der Vorliebe für dicke Bücher und ihren verheerenden Folgen für den Schulbesuch, vom unwirtlichen Wien, von literarischen Wegbegleitern aller Art, von Irvings Frauen und Söhnen und immer wieder vom Ringen erzählt dieses amüsante, reich bebilderte Selbstportrait für alle Irving-Fans. John...
Book cover of Until I Find You
by John Irving
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From...
Book cover of Zirkuskind
by John Irving
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2012

Verführerisch bunt und schillernd wie Bombay, unberechenbar magisch und spannend wie ein akrobatischer Seiltrick, das ist John Irvings lang erwarteter Roman >Zirkuskind<, ein Arzt- und Zirkusdrama der ganz anderen Art. Dr. Daruwalla sucht das >Zwergen-Gen< und einen Golfplatzmörder....
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