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In One Person
John Irving
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Description for In One Person
Paperback. A story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love — tormented, funny, and affecting — and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of ‘terminal cases’, The World According to Garp.
His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552778442
SKU
V9780552778442
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99-99
About John Irving
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller; it also became a George Roy Hill film.Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984).Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five foreign languages, and he has had nine international ... Read more
Reviews for In One Person
This wonderful novel is an epic, moving survey of 70 years of sexual revolution
The Times
Deeply enjoyable... a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature
Guardian
Irving has rarely written with the gorgeous poise and control he musters here
Financial Times
In One Person gives a lot. It’s funny, as you would ... Read more
The Times
Deeply enjoyable... a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature
Guardian
Irving has rarely written with the gorgeous poise and control he musters here
Financial Times
In One Person gives a lot. It’s funny, as you would ... Read more