Bücher von John Irving

'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine.

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.

John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry.

Sechs Erzählungen: über die anbrechende sexuelle Revolution in einem altjüngferlich-prüden amerikanischen Mädchen-College; über Liebe, Lüge, Erotik, Sex und Kinderhaben im Irving-Land New Hampshire; über Frischgeschiedene unterwegs zu neuen Träumen und Alpträumen... Außerdem: eine autobiographische Parabel und ein Essay über John Irvings literarisches und moralisches Vorbild Charles Dickens.

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After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author's account of the novel-to-film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving's incomparable wit and style.

"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."-Los Angeles TimesFred "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 has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery. Trumper is determined to change. There's only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . . Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumper's tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irving's trademark."Three or four times as funny as most novels."-The New YorkerPraise for The Water-Method Man"Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly-something close to joyful malice-perpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in [John] Irving's fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irving's multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of The World According to Garp, but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method Man [which is Garp's predecessor by six years]."-Terrence Des Pres"Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry."-Time

Auf der Laienbühne seines Großvaters in Vermont lernt William, dass gewisse Rollen sehr gefährlich sind. Und dass Menschen, die er liebt, manchmal ganz andere Rollen spielen, als er glaubt: so wie die geheimnisvolle Bibliothekarin Miss Frost. Denn wer sich nicht in Gefahr begibt, wird niemals erfahren, wer er ist.

Wer diesen Roman noch nicht gelesen hat, ist zu beneiden. Denn ihn erwartet eine Welt voller skurriler Ereignisse und liebenswert verschrobener Figuren in Neuengland und Wien. Garps Welt eben, in der alles passieren kann und meistens auch passiert.

Die Odyssee eines Kochs und seines Sohns durch New Hampshire und halb Amerika, ausgelöst durch eine tragische Verwechslung.

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 crucial 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 in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time.Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.

Seine Frau will raus; seine Geliebte will ein Kind. Die Beschwerden, die er sich bei seiner einstigen Babysitterin geholt hat, machen ihm das Lieben zur Qual. Der Filmemacher, für den er arbeitet, will sein Leben verfilmen: als Dokumentation eines Fehlschlags. Dies ist die Geschichte des fluchbeladenen Fred Bogus Trumper, eines Schlawiners und Schwindlers, eines Nichtstuers voller Charme und guter Vorsätze.

Zwei Paare beschließen, es einmal mit Partnertausch zu versuchen. Ein mittelgewichtiger Versuch, mit dem schwergewichtigen Problem der Ehe fertigzuwerden und wieder gefährlich zu leben. Anfangs scheint auch alles zu klappen, doch dann entpuppt sich einer der Vier als Spielverderber, die Vierecksgeschichte entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem Kampf hinter verschlossenen Türen, mit schmerzlichen Folgen.

Was tun, wenn zwei Wiener Eulenspiegel beschlossen haben, durch ihre Universitätsexamen zu fallen, auf einem geliehenen Motorrad in die Welt zu fahren und die Bären zu befreien? Unterwegs gilt es, dicke und dünne Mädchen zu erobern, wachsame Tanten, Parkwächter und wütende Bienen zu überlisten. Vor dem Hintergrund des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Österreich bekommt diese Reise eine tragisch-skurrile Vorgeschichte.

Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist's repertoire. This study looks at a selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve meanings.

'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.