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John Irving (1) (1942–)

Autor/a de A Prayer for Owen Meany

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55+ obres 88,997 Membres 1,399 Ressenyes 673 preferits

Sobre l'autor

John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. (Publisher Provided) John Irving was mostra'n més born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His named was changed to John Winslow Irving when his stepfather adopted him at the age of six. He was a dyslexic child and it took him five years to get through Exeter Academy, which is where his adoptive father taught Russian history. He received a B.A. (cum laude) from the University of New Hampshire in 1965 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, in 1967, where he studied with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His first novel was Setting Free the Bears (1969) but it wasn't until The World According to Garp was published in 1978, that he became a literary star. The novel spent six months on the bestseller list and won the American Book Award in 1980. It was also made into a movie in 1982 starring Robin Williams and costarring Glenn Close and John Lithgow. In 1981, he received an O. Henry Award for the short story Interior Space. Some of his other novels were also made into movies including The Hotel New Hampshire starring Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe; A Prayer for Owen Meany, which was titled Simon Birch starring Jim Carrey; and The Cider House Rules starring Michael Caine. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules in 2000. Irving also wrote two memoirs; one detailing his wrestling adventures entitled The Imaginary Girlfriend, and another concerning his novels made into Hollywood films entitled My Movie Business: A Memoir. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) 18,017 exemplars
El món segons Garp (1978) 15,103 exemplars
Una dona difícil (1998) 8,317 exemplars
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) 7,246 exemplars
La quarta mà (2001) 4,470 exemplars
Fins que et trobi (2005) 4,179 exemplars
A Son of the Circus (1994) 3,816 exemplars
L'Última nit a Twisted River (2009) 3,065 exemplars
The Water-Method Man (1972) 2,442 exemplars
The 158-Pound Marriage (1974) 1,991 exemplars
Setting Free the Bears (1968) 1,884 exemplars
In One Person (2012) 1,872 exemplars
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993) 1,839 exemplars
L'Avinguda dels Misteris (2015) 1,118 exemplars
The Imaginary Girlfriend (1996) 523 exemplars
My Movie Business: A Memoir (1999) 425 exemplars
The Last Chairlift (2022) 345 exemplars
3 by Irving (1968) 172 exemplars
The Cider House Rules [1999 film] (1999) — Screenwriter; Autor — 120 exemplars
The Hotel New Hampshire [1984 film] (1984) — Autor — 42 exemplars
Ruimte binnenshuis (1974) 24 exemplars
La pensione Grillparzer (2009) 2 exemplars
In one person (Vol. 1 of 2) (2013) 1 exemplars
The Boston Review 1 exemplars
In one person (Vol. 2 of 2) (2013) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

A Christmas Carol | The Chimes | The Haunted Man (1995) — Introducció — 284 exemplars
Writers on Writing (1991) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Simon Birch [1998 film] (1998) — Original book — 60 exemplars
How to Use the Power of the Printed Word (1985) — Autor — 29 exemplars
Cat and Mouse and Other Writings (German Library) (1994) — Pròleg — 28 exemplars
The Door in the Floor [2004 film] (2004) — Original book — 25 exemplars
Histoires à lire - huit nouvelles (1994) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Liefde en bedrog: zeven hartstochtelijke verhalen — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars

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Takes place in Amsterdam a Name that Book (febrer 2013)
Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving a 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (juliol 2012)
A Prayer for Owen Meany a Someone explain it to me... (agost 2011)
50 States Fiction and Nonfiction Reads a Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge (abril 2011)

Ressenyes

Un llibre prou decepcionant. El començament prometia però a poc a poc es fa repetitiu i fins i tot avorrit.
 
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Jordi_Camps | Hi ha 60 ressenyes més | Jan 21, 2023 |
És el primer llibre que llegeixo de John Irving i haig de dir que m'ha agradat moltíssim. Els tres salts temporals de la narració, el protagonisme de dues dones en situacions personals i emocionals ben complexes i tot el ventall de personatges secundaris és molt interessant. A més és una barreja de historia familiar amb novel·la negra tragicòmica.
M'ha sorprés que molts lectors comenten que no és un bon llibre, comparat amb "el món segons Garp" o "Les normes de la Casa de la Sidra" així que m'hauré de llegir-los per a comparar.… (més)
 
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Jordi_Camps | Hi ha 108 ressenyes més | Jan 6, 2023 |
2000 regal cumple Santi
 
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sllorens | Hi ha 108 ressenyes més | Nov 22, 2021 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
55
També de
12
Membres
88,997
Popularitat
#115
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
1,399
ISBN
1,346
Llengües
26
Preferit
673
Quant a
1
Pedres de toc
1,551

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