Name: Avenue of Mysteries von John Irving
SKU: 9780857521156
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Avenue of Mysteries Zusammenfassung

Avenue of Mysteries John Irving

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 childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. 'An aura of fate had marked him,' John Irving writes. '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.

Avenue of Mysteries Bewertungen

From the first page to the last, there is a goodness to this novel, a tenacious belief in love and the redemptive power of human connection, unfettered by institutions and conventions. This belief, combined with good old-fashioned storytelling, is surely why Irving is so often described as Dickensian. But John Irving is his own thing, and so is his new novel. Avenue of Mysteries is thoroughly modern, accessibly brainy, hilariously eccentric and beautifully human. -- Tayari Jones New York Times Book Review Irving has packed so much detail in ... And yet he has not run out of what has endeared him to so many for so long: immense charm, an appetite to hurtle headlong at the biggest questions and the altogether unfashionable belief that sentimentality is not a crime against art Guardian Mischievous ... Challenging and absorbing ... Juan Diego emerges as one of Irving's most memorable and fascinating creations, which is saying something. He is a twenty-first century Garp. Herald Irving has embarked on his dark phase, as did Dickens. It will be interesting, if melancholy, to follow him down that gloomy avenue The Times A typically idiosyncratic Irving novel: at times exhausting, at other times rambling and self-indulgent, but always readable, impassioned and thought-provoking Mail on Sunday

Über John Irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O Henry Award in 1981 for his short story 'Interior Space'. In 2000, Mr Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer - his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages - John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.

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Sku

GOR007478495

ISBN 13

9780857521156

ISBN 10

0857521152

Titel

Avenue of Mysteries John Irving

Autor

John Irving

Zustand

Gebraucht - Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Datum

20160114

Anzahl der Seiten

768

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N/A

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