A Widow for one Year
(Sprache: Englisch)
Liebe und Tod, Leidenschaft und Vergänglichkeit, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion sind die Pole, zwischen denen der Puls des Romans von John Irving schlägt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Schriftstellerin Ruth Cole, eine starke und verletzliche Frau, die mit ihren...
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Liebe und Tod, Leidenschaft und Vergänglichkeit, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion sind die Pole, zwischen denen der Puls des 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 Pech hat ... Umwerfend komisch und aufwühlend.
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Irving is one of America's most original and memorable literary talents, and amongst his novels are the bestselling titles "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer For Owen Meany". This is the paperback edition of his latest highly acclaimed novel. "Every word is made to tell with maximum force." "Sunday Telegraph".
Autoren-Porträt von John Irving
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. 'It was so simple,' he remembers. 'Yount was the first person to point out that anything I did except writing was going to be vaguely unsatisfying.'The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller; it also became a George Roy Hill film. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five foreign languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called "an American classic" is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), the portrayal of an enduring friendship at that time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States.
In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, until he was thirty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven). In 2000, Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a Lasse Hallström film with seven Academy Award nominations. Tod Williams wrote and directed The Door in the Floor, the 2004 film adapted from Mr. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year. Avenue of Mysteries is John Irving's fourteenth novel.
John Irving has three children and lives in Vermont and Toronto.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Irving
- 1999, 656 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Black Swan
- ISBN-10: 055299796X
- ISBN-13: 9780552997966
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1999
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Wickedly knowing, mischievously post-modern and magical realist along the lines of Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robertson Davies" Time Out "Gripping, full of horror and humour" Literary Review "A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel" San Francisco Chronicle "Irving's storytelling has never been better" New York Times "His best since Garp" Time
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