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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by IRVING, JOHN
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Series: Readers Circle Ser.
"In the hospital of the orphanage -- the boys' division at St Cloud's, Maine -- two nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory circumcision." First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in r ...Show more
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 h ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"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 e ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle | Reading Level: General Adult
"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 e ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
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 call ...Show more
The Treasures of Mozart by John Irving
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
From genius to pauper, "The Treasures of Mozart" tracks the life and career of one of the music world's greatest composers. His works are consistently in the classical music charts, yet he died in poverty at the tragically early age of 35. In this succinct and lavishly illustrated book, the reader is in ...Show more
The World According to Garp by John Irving
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
New York Times bestseller -- 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author -- "A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking."- The Washington Post This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahe ...Show more
Until I Find You by John Irving
$25.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 organ ...Show more
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