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In One Person

January 29, 2013 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780307361790
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Description

His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love--tormented, funny and affecting--and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of the novel's bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott.

In One Person is a glorious ode to sexual difference, a poignant story of a life that no reader will be able to forget, a book that no one else could have written. Utterly contemporary and topical in its themes, In One Person grapples with the mysteries of identity and the multiple tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and with everything that has changed in our sexual life over the last 50 years and everything that still needs to. It's also one of Irving's most sincere and human novels, a book imbued on every page with a spirit of openness that expands and challenges the reader's world.

About this Author

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. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. An international writer, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto. 

ISBN: 9780307361790
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2013-01-29

Reviews

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDFOR BISEXUAL FICTION


"[In One Person] reaffirms the centrality of Irving as the voice of social justice and compassion in contemporary American literature. His work has been indispensable over the past four decades, and it will prove more important, more urgently resonant and more prescient, in the decades to come."--The Globe and Mail

"Deeply enjoyable. . . . Virtuosically unsentimental. . . . In One Person resembles especially Irving's most famous novel, the wondrous The World According to Garp." --The Guardian

"[Irving's] most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade."--Vanity Fair

"It is impossible to imagine the American--or international--literary landscape without John Irving. . . . He is as close as one gets to a contemporary Dickens in the scope of his celebrity and the level of his achievement." --TIME

"'Fullness of heart,' a quality Irving has praised in Dickens, is one of [In One Person's] many virtues, and the reader is swept along by the histories it tells. . . . John Irving understands plotting as few other living American writers do." --The New York Review of Books

"A sexual comedy that has both guts and heart." --The Independent (UK)

"Deeply affecting. . . . [A] novel that reaffirms the centrality of Irving as the voice of social justice and compassion in contemporary American literature." --Steven Hayward, The Globe and Mail

"Memorable. . . . Powerful and timely." --CBC Books

"An important book that will become, over time, a cultural standard." --The Washington Independent Review of Books

"In One Person
tackles questions of identity and sexual politics with the straightforward style and explicit honesty Irving fans know well." --Toronto Star

"Desire and its unsettlements of the soul are as central to John Irving's work as lost fathers. . . . In One Person gives a lot. It's funny, as you would expect. It's risky in what it exposes. . . . Tolerance, in a John Irving novel, is not about anything goes. It's what happens when we face our own desires honestly, whether we act on them or not." --Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review

"Irving demonstrates a startlingly sophisticated understanding of human sexuality: that it is as diverse as individuality. . . . Life is hard in reality and perhaps harder in fiction, yet Irving has a way of presenting the characters of In One Person as complex and nuanced human beings; sometimes victimized but never accepting 'victim' as an identity." --Xtra
"A brave and hugely affecting depiction of how in one life (sexual and otherwise) we contain multitudes." --Elle

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