John Irving

“My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me – don’t make me a category before you get to know me!”
 
John Irving’s new novel is a glorious ode to sexual difference, a poignant story of a life that no reader will be able to forget, a book that no one else could have written.
 
Told with the panache and assurance of a master storyteller, In One Person takes the

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"One of the worlds greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven yearsa ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. Since his first novel in 1968, John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our timeamong them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. Time magazine describes his work as epic and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave....

"THERE is no more agreeable mode of passing a day, and thereby breaking in upon the tedium of a long summer's residence in Charleston, than taking advantage occasionally of the opportunity now afforded for a weekly excursion on Cooper River….."So begins this wonderful reminiscence of South Carolina plantation life, written by Charleston physician-and rice planter himself-John B. Irving. Originally published in 1842, this reads as beautifully today...

A young man leaves the Maine orphanage where he was raised to find his place in the world and his first stop is to work at an apple orchard.