John Irving Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

Surgically, but with wit Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia.

"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 what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. "An aura of fate had marked him," John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. "The chain of events, the links in our lives--what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do--all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious." Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past--in Mexico--collides with his future"--

Seven students are about to have their lives changed by one amazing teacher in this school story sequel filled with unique characters every reader can relate to. It’s the start of a new year at Snow Hill School, and seven students find themselves thrown together in Mr. Terupt’s fifth grade class. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school. They don’t have much in common, and they’ve never gotten along. Not until a certain new teacher arrives and helps them to find strength inside themselves—and in each other. But when Mr. Terupt suffers a terrible accident, will his students be able to remember the lessons he taught them? Or will their lives go back to the way they were before—before fifth grade and before Mr. Terupt? Find out what happens in sixth and seventh grades in Mr. Terupt Falls Again and Saving Mr. Terupt. And don't miss the conclusion to the series, Goodbye, Mr. Terupt, coming soon! "The characters are authentic and the short chapters are skillfully arranged to keep readers moving headlong toward the satisfying conclusion."--School Library Journal, Starred

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An NPR "Great Reads" Book All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive world of publishing in postwar New York—yet what he most desires, and what eludes him, is love. Here is PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter's dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.

Irvingov trinásty román je rozprávanie o túžbe, o tajomstvách, o hľadaní sexuálnej identity a o nenaplnenej láske – manifest inakosti a ďalší autorov bildungsromán, ktorého ústrednou postavou a zároveň rozprávačom je Billy Abott, úspešný takmer sedemdesiatročný spisovateľ. Billy vyrastal v neúplnej rodine, otec ho opustil hneď po narodení, a to za záhadných okolností, „o ktorých sa doma mlčí“, jeho matka bývalého manžela naoko nenávidí a znovu sa vydá za miestneho učiteľa, Billyho teta Muriel nenávidí každého a všetko, jej manžel je alkoholik, starý otec má pílu a hrá v mestskom amatérskom divadelnom súbore, do ženských šiat sa však neprezlieka len na javisku, ale aj v civilnom živote. Je teda jasné, že Billy si od raných liet kládol zásadné otázky nielen o svojej rodine. Pod vplyvom jednej zo svojich lások, slečny Fosterovej, knihovníčky v miestnej knižnici, ktorá má tiež svoje veľké tajomstvo, Billy sexuálne precitne a užíva si naplno svoj život.

V poradí dvanásty román Johna Irvinga je rovnako kľukatý, divoký a búrlivý ako rieka, ktorá mu dala meno. Príbeh má strhujúce tempo a je dochutený všetkými ingredienciami, na ktoré sú Irvingovi čitatelia zvyknutí - bizarnými nehodami, roztrhanými telami, psími zápasmi, automobilovými nešťastiami. Príbeh sa začína v roku 1954 v drevorubačskom tábore Twisted River v štáte New Hampshire, kde Dominic Baciagalupo pracuje ako kuchár. Pomáha mu jeho dvanásťročný syn Daniel. Tvrdý, ale v podstate jednotvárny život ústrednej dvojice postáv náhle zmení tragická nehoda, keď Daniel nechtiac spôsobí smrť ženy, ktorú v uzavretej komunite lesných robotníkov každý pozná. Táto nešťastná udalosť prinúti Dominica so synom opustiť tábor a zmieriť sa s údelom vyhnancov. Ich putovanie po viacerých amerických štátoch navyše komplikuje nevypočítateľný zástupca šerifa z Twisted River, ktorý prisahal, že sa za smrť osadníčky pomstí.

Focusing on Mozart's renowned string quartets, this guide highlights the composer's deep friendship with Joseph Haydn, who greatly influenced his work. It explores the musical intricacies and emotional depth of these quartets, offering insights into their historical context and significance. The book serves as both an analysis and appreciation of Mozart's contributions to chamber music, making it a valuable resource for music enthusiasts and scholars alike.

The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships with older women. John Irving renders Jack's life as an actor in Hollywood with the same richness of detail and range of emotions he uses to describe the tattoo parlors in those North Sea ports and the reverberating music Jack heard as a child in European churches.

Das Buch, das eine ganze Reisebibliothek ersetzt und noch in jeden Koffer passt. Das Ferienlesebuch 2004 mit vergnüglichen und spannenden Erzählungen großer Autorinnen und Autoren. Mit wasserfester Schutzhülle.

John Irving's first children's book, illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann, features text from his novel "A Widow For One Year."

John Irving über Günter Grass und Elisabeth Mann Borgese, über Marcel Reich-Ranicki und Hunde, die Klavier spielen können. Ein Stimmungsbericht über das Deutschland der neunziger Jahre.

15 berühmte Schriftsteller erzählen ein sommerliches Ferienstück, in dem - so die einzige Bedingung - eine blaurote Luftmatratze vorkommen muss. Illustriert von internationalen Starzeichnern stellt sich beim Lesen dieses Buches unweigerlich ein Gefühl von Sommer-Sonne-blauer-Himmel ein. Man wähnt sich schmökernd auf einer sanft schaukelnden Luftmatratze. Einer blauroten, versteht sich.

John Irving hat sie als seine liebste Geschichte bezeichnet: Ein Mann, der auf den Händen geht, ein Bär auf einem Einrad – das sind nur zwei der Seltsamkeiten, die dem Hotelinspektor begegnen, der zusammen mit seiner Familie in der Pension Grillparzer, Wien, Ecke Planken- und Seilergasse absteigt, um zu prüfen, ob sie eine höhere Klassifikation verdient. Dem Irving-Leser sind sie vertraut: Die kurze Erzählung 'The Pension Grillparzer', 1976 erschienen und später in 'The World According to Garp' eingebaut, enthält Irvings ganzen erzählerischen Kosmos in nuce, ist verrückt, skurril, phantastisch und damit bester Irving für Einsteiger. Beigegeben sind Irvings 'notes' zu seiner Story.

Desiaty román známeho amerického spisovateľa rozvíja nezvyčajnú tému. Mladý reportér z New Yorku, ktorý príde do Indie urobiť reportáž, kurióznym spôsobom príde o ľavú ruku – milióny televíznych divákov vidia, ako mu ju zožerie lev. V Bostone čaká ctižiadostivý chirurg na možnosť transplantovať chýbajúcu končatinu. Vydatá žena z Wisconsinu ponúkne ruku svojho manžela, o ktorom vysvitne, že je ešte pomerne mladý a zdravý… Príbeh sa spočiatku javí ako komédia, ako satira s nepochybným erotickým podtónom, no napokon sa z neho vyvinie realistický, dojímavý príbeh, aké poznáme z pera tohto autora, spomeňme napríklad Svet podľa Garpa, Modlitba za Owena Meanyho či Zásady muštárne.

A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage.In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory.

John Irving S Memoir Begins With His Account Of The Distinguished Career And Medical Writings Of The Novelist S Grandfather Dr Frederick C. Irving, A Renowned Obstetrician And Gynaecologist, And Includes Mr Irving S Incisive History Of Abortion Politics In The United States. But My Movie Business Focuses Primarily On The Thirteen Years John Irving Spent Adapting His Novel The Cider House Rules For The Screen For Four Different Directors.Mr Irving Also Writes About The Failed Effort To Make His First Novel, Setting Free The Bears, Into A Movie, About Two Of The Films That Were Made From His Novels (But Not From His Screenplays), The World According To Garp And The Hotel New Hampshire; About His Slow Progress At Shepherding His Screenplay Of A Son Of The Circus Into Production.Not Least, And In Addition To Its Qualities As A Memoir Anecdotal, Comic, Affectionate And Candid My Movie Business Is An Insightful Essay On The Essential Differences Between Writing A Novel And Writing A Screenplay.

Hrsg. von Küver, Martina und Tebbe, Thomas, mit Beiträgen von Brown, Rita Mae; Lessing, Doris; Irving, John. 377 Seiten.

Twenty years after The World According to Gary, John Irving gives us a new novel about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive. --back cover

"The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler"--Publisher's description

This collection features the first three novels of this highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. Compassionate, satirical, deeply insightful and humorous, these compelling novels have gained him millions of fans. Setting Free the Bears : Siggy and Hannes were disenchanted students and fellow conspirators. Astride a 700cc royal Enfield motorcycle, they roamed the Austrian countryside. When Gallen, a lovely hitchhiker, joined them, they zeroed in on the Vienna Zoo--and Siggy's setting free the bears! The Water-Method Man : The acclaimed second novel by the author of the #1 international bestseller, A Prayer for Owen Meany. Fred "Bogus" Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, he stubbornly clings to the notion he'll make something of his life. The 158 Pound Marriage : Sometimes they looked at each other, aroused half out of their minds by the thought that each had just been making love with another, and it would be enough to make them want to do it--together--all over again. Well, almost enough.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs - two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend", is the core of this collection. The middle section of the book is fiction. In 28 years, John Irving has written eight novels - but only a half-dozen short stories that he considers "finished"; they are all published here. In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on Gunter Grass, two on Charles Dickens. To each of the 12 pieces, which cover 30 years of writing, Mr. Irving has contributed his Author's Notes.

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Fascinujúca postava hlavného hrdinu Owena Meanyho, osudy ktorého podáva autor prostredníctvom monológu jeho najlepšieho priateľa, je nielen symbolom doby, všetkých jej protirečení a tragédií stelesnených najmä vojnou, ale aj symbolom ľudskej viery, porozumenia a obety v prospech dobra a lásky k blížnemu. Ústami nezvyčajného chlapca a neskôr mladého muža, malého vzrastom, ale veľkého duchom, ktorý svojimi životnými postojmi priam magicky ovplyvňuje životy ľudí okolo seba.

Príbeh o Homerovi Wellsovi začína uprostred jabloňových sadov v štáte Maine v Novom Anglicku. V sirotinci v mestečku St. Cloud je Homer najstarší zverenec, nikto si ho neadoptoval, a tak tam zostal a priúča sa u zakladateľa sirotinca Wilbura Larcha, neobyčajne láskavého muža, závislého na éteri, remeslu, pomocou ktorého pomáha ženám v meste. Vedomosti, skúsenosti a životné pravdy, čo ako mladý chlapec získal od doktora Larcha, zúročí ako dospelý, keď sa stane šéfom muštárne a milencom ženy svojho najlepšieho priateľa...

Irving podobne ako v iných románoch excelentne zaznamenáva nuansy bizarného rodinného života súrodencov Berryovcov – homosexuála Franka, Franny a Johna spojených incestným vzťahov, trpaslíčky Lilly s literárnym talentom a kurióznej postavičky Vajca.

Román plný absurdít a nečakaných situácií zachytáva obyčajnú ľudskosť a nevyhnutné konce, ktorým sa človek nemôže vyhnúť. Hlavným hrdinom je Garp, človek s obyčajnými túžbami, ktorého život ovplyvní už jeho počatie. Jeho matka, rozhodnutá mať dieťa bez partnera, si za otca vyberie nevyliečiteľne chorého vojaka. Tento vzťah formuje Garpov život a jeho osobnosť. Postavy v románe, vrátane Garpovej matky, manželky Helen a ich synov, sú realistické a ich činy majú silný dopad. Každý z nich má sny, ktoré sa po ich splnení menia na nočné mory, z ktorých unikajú len smrťou. Garp, vychovávaný excentrickou matkou Jenny, sa pod jej vedením stáva svojráznou osobnosťou. Spoločne odchádzajú do Viedne s cieľom písať. Jenny sa stáva uznávanou autoritou v ženskom hnutí po vydaní svojho bestselleru. Garp sa snaží oženiť s Helenou a píše poviedku, no jeho dielo je príliš afektované a odráža jeho bolestné zážitky. Slávnym sa stáva až po napísaní bulvárneho románu, avšak úspech ho zaskočí. Román sa zaoberá citlivými témami ako individualita, sexualita, ženské hnutie a strach z nešťastia. Garpovo neúnavné snaženie chrániť šťastie a pokoj svojej rodiny vystupuje z tejto bohatej mozaiky.

On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party.

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.... "Three or four times as funny as most novels." THE NEW YORKER From the Paperback edition.

Keď Sovietska armáda v posledných dňoch druhej svetovej vojny vstúpila do Viedne, zmizli všetky zvieratá z Viedenskej zoologickej záhrady, pravdepodobne ich zjedli hladujúci občania mesta. V tomto historickom románe o nacistickom obsadení Rakúska a o sovietskej okupácii Viedne dvaja viedenskí študenti v roku 1967 znovu uskutočnia „oslobodenie“ viedenskej zoo – s komickými a zároveň hroznými následkami. To, že tento bohato štruktúrovaný román napísal dvadsaťpäťročný Američan, je ďalším dôkazom o obrovskom talente Johna Irvinga.