Bøger af John Irving

En journalist fra New York får under en direkte tv-reportage i Indien spist sin venstre hånd af en løve, mens millioner af tv-seere kigger med.I Boston står en berømt håndkirurg på spring for at foretage verdens første håndtransplantation, i ventetiden bliver kirurgen, der er ved at komme sig efter en bitter skilsmisse, forført af sin husholderske. En gift kvinde i Wisconsin vil gerne donere sin mands venstre hånd til den en-håndede journalist - vel at mærke først når manden er død. Men manden er absolut ikke død, han lever i bedste velgående og er forholdsvis ung og sund.Sådan begynder John Irvings roman, der først ligner en satire og en erotisk farce, men udvikler sig til en realistisk og bevægende roman i samme ånd som Irvings tidligere romaner."Som altid blev jeg efter få sider inde i bogen indfanget af John Irvings formidable, forunderlige, vidtfavnende måde at anskue/gennemskue mennesket i universet eller universet i mennesket på! Godt at jeg er pensionist, så jeg kunne læse bogen i nattens stilhed, og uden forstyrrelser suge Irvings klogskab, vildskab og skønhed ind i mit eget univers." - Saxo.com"Irving har siden sin første roman været fascineret af særprægede hændelser og mærkelige situationer og beskriver dem med stor sans for situationskomik. Hans personer er sære og excentriske, men ikke desto mindre interessante typer. Derudover er Irving en mester i at have mange forskellige sidehistorier i gang samtidig, men han formår altid at få samlet alle trådene til et smukt hele. Læg dertil, at hans romaner som oftest indeholder en blanding af sex, begær, kærlighed og erotik anskuet fra en humoristisk synsvinkel - hvad mere kan man så forlange? Jeg kan på det varmeste anbefale bogen." - LitteratursidenJohn Irving er født i Exeter, New Hampshire, i 1942. Han debuterede med romanen Slip bjørnene fri i 1968, og siden er det blevet til tolv romaner. John Irving bor i Vermont og Toronto med sin familie.

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author 'BRILLIANT' Cosmpolitan; 'ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY' L A Times

'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.

'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion;

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.

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.

'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot'It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II.

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach.

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.'Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto.

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. and in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.