J. Irving

The main character of John Irving`s second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first....

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

This is the life of , the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes-even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases". Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

Издание на английском языке.

Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.

Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

This story about an orphan and a childless doctor in rural Maine who develop an extraordinary bond is being released to coincide with a major motion picture from Miramax starring Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, and Delroy Lindo. From one of America`s respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another

Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Fred `Bogus` Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy`s. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he`ll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.

Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

So says John Berry, 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. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in this funny, sad, outrageous and moving novel.

Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells` odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud`s orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage`s founder, a man of rare compassion and with an addiction to ether. Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especially Homer Wells. It is Homer`s story we follow, from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend.

Издательство: Corgi Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin`s underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires as Irving blends farce and tragedy in another bubbling and brilliant novel.

Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004