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The Cider House Rules by IRVING, JOHN
Category: Romance | Series: Readers Circle Ser.
"In the hospital of the orphanage -- the boys' division at St Cloud's, Maine -- two nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory circumcision." First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in r ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Category: Fiction
"'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'i>omer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S.
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 Fourth Hand by John Irving
Category: Fiction
'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned h ...Show more
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Category: Fiction
While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housek ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Category: Fiction
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels".So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves e ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S.
'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels'. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
Category: 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 Last Chairlift by John Irving
Category: 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 calle ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
Category: Fiction
One of the world's greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years--a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time--among them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer fo ...Show more
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Judith John (Contribution by); Washington Irving
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle, with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First publi ...Show more