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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes that he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifyin ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. 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 ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
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 centu ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toro ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
$26.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse 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 ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years -- a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is call ...Show more
The World According to Garp by John Irving
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. 'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking...terrific' WASHINGTON POST Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled ...Show more
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