John Irving (1) (1942–)

Autor/a de A Prayer for Owen Meany

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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

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A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) 18,017 exemplars

El món segons Garp (1978) 15,103 exemplars

Prínceps de Maine, reis de Nova Anglaterra (1985) 11,604 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

A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (2003) 169 exemplars

The Cider House Rules [1999 film] (1999) — Screenwriter; Autor — 120 exemplars

The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay (1999) 50 exemplars

The Hotel New Hampshire [1984 film] (1984) — Autor — 42 exemplars

Die Pension Grillparzer: Eine Bärengeschichte (1974) 29 exemplars

Ruimte binnenshuis (1974) 24 exemplars

En bøn for Owen Meany - Andet bind (1990) 19 exemplars

Acht Amerikaanse verhalen 18 exemplars

The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud's (2001) 13 exemplars

En bøn for Owen Meany / 1. bind (1992) 11 exemplars

Waarom ik van Dickens hou en andere verhalen (1991) 9 exemplars

Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing 8 exemplars

Garpin maailma ; Kaikki isäni hotellit ; Välisarjan avioliitto (1988) 7 exemplars

De koning van het kinderspeelgoed Günter Grass en zijn werk (1996) 6 exemplars

Andermans dromen een kennismaking met de Diogenes-serie (1996) 6 exemplars

A son of the circus (Vol. 2 of 2) (1999) 5 exemplars

A son of the circus (Vol. 1 of 2) (1999) 4 exemplars

Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler (2012) 4 exemplars

A Teacher's Guide for a Prayer for Owen Meany: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2014) 3 exemplars

Exclusive Interview: James Atlas with John Irving 2 exemplars

Boston Mercy and the Pension Grillparzer/from the World According to Garp/2 Audio Cassettes (1986) 2 exemplars

El mundo según Garp (Volumen II) (1983) 2 exemplars

El mundo según Garp (volumen I) (1983) 2 exemplars

La pensione Grillparzer (2009) 2 exemplars

In one person (Vol. 1 of 2) (2013) 1 exemplars

The Cider House Rules/a Widow for One Year/a Prayer for Owen Meany (2002) 1 exemplars

A widow for one year (Vol. 2 of 2) (2000) 1 exemplars

A widow for one year (Vol. 1 of 2) (2000) 1 exemplars

Until I Find You: Volume 1 (Unabridged) 1 exemplars

Until I Find You: Volume 2 (Unabridged) 1 exemplars

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Thumb Tripping / The End of the Road / The World According to Garp 1 exemplars

Nowhere man : stories 1984-1992 (1992) 1 exemplars

The Boston Review 1 exemplars

Hotel New Hampshire-V1 1 exemplars

Hotel New Hampshire-V2 1 exemplars

In one person (Vol. 2 of 2) (2013) 1 exemplars

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Obres associades

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars

You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducció — 376 exemplars

Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Col·laborador — 295 exemplars

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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Nom oficial: Irving, John Winslow
Altres noms: Blunt, John Wallace, Jr.
Data de naixement: 1942-03-02
Gènere: male
Nacionalitat: USA
Lloc de naixement: Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
Llocs de residència: Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
Educació: University of New Hampshire
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Phillips Exeter Academy
University of Pittsburgh
University of Vienna
Professions: novelist
short-story writer
teacher
wrestling coach
Organitzacions: American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2001])
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Premis i honors: Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award (2000)
National Wrestling Hall of Fame (1992)
National Book Award (1980 for The World According to Garp)

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Converses

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)

Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (planning thread) 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

La Quarta mà de John Irving

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 |

Una Dona difícil de John Irving

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 |