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John Irving

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Born
in Exeter, New Hampshire, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences
Dickens, Hardy, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven.
Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selli ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,110,475 ratings · 52,930 reviews · 182 distinct works • Similar authors
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4.24 avg rating — 334,162 ratings — published 1989 — 215 editions
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The World According to Garp
4.11 avg rating — 237,117 ratings — published 1978 — 310 editions
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4.17 avg rating — 193,845 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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The Hotel New Hampshire
3.93 avg rating — 68,332 ratings — published 1981 — 151 editions
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A Widow for One Year
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Last Night in Twisted River
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In One Person
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“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
tags: death, grief, loss
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“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
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June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages
 
  9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  7 votes, 16.3%

 
  6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages
 
  5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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