![]() ![]() And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?" Edmund White, "It is impossible to imagine the American - or international - literary landscape without John Irving.He has sold tens of millions of copies of his books, books that have earned descriptions like epic and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave. John Irving in this magnificent novelhis best and most passionate since The World According to Garp has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. ![]() ![]() Anthropologists say that the interstitialwhatever lies between two familiar oppositesis usually declared either taboo or sacred. Now he has extended his sympathiesand oursstill further into areas that even the misfits eschew. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiaritiesin a fierce, not a saccharine, way. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. ![]() BookPage (Fiction Top Pick, May 2012), " In One Person is a novel that makes you proud to be human. " is a staggeringly ambitious work, and its success reaffirms Irving's place among our greatest working novelists." - BookPage (Fiction Top Pick, May 2012), is a staggeringly ambitious work, and its success reaffirms Irvings place among our greatest working novelists. ![]()
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