If you want to read John Irving for the first time

Wanting to read John Irving for the first time? Where should I start?

My first Irving book was A Prayer for Owen Meany and it really sparked my interest in his writing. I think it's a good place to start. If not ...

If you want to read John Irving for the first time, what book ... - Quora

If you're delving into John Irving's work for the first time, I recommend starting with "The World According to Garp.

Which John Irving should I start with? Showing 1-9 of 9 - Goodreads

Christophe Bonnet The World According to Garp is one of my favorite. You can fit it under "book that spans a character' life span", and probably ...

Reading Pathways: John Irving - Book Riot

John Irving, if he were any less of a skilled technician, would easily become one of those authors. He's got a style all his own and themes that ...

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OWEN MEANY hands down my favorite of all books. I too started with Garp, which I bought at a Circle K convenance store simply because I like ...

Acclaimed Iowa Alumnus John Irving Reflects on His 'Last Long Train'

I must say, I enjoyed that job. · I was always behind in school. · I was only 17 when I first read Moby Dick, but that was the novel that showed ...

John Irving Begins with the End

Well, yeah, it's not that hard to foreshadow what's coming when you know what's coming…I write endings first. I write last sentences – sometimes ...

John Irving: By the Book - The New York Times

What book is on your night stand now? · Where, when and how do you like to read? Paper or electronic? · What was the last truly great book you ...

Collision Courses and Castration Anxiety: Rereading John Irving

John Irving could write his best book next year, and it probably wouldn't be as good as Garp was, the first time I read it. Sometimes you just ...

The Next Best Book Club discussion John Irving - Goodreads

Cait My favorite is also a Prayer for Owen Meany, which was the first book of his I read. A close second (so far) is The Cider House Rules. I ...

On Writing the Last Sentence First/John Irving - Beth Kephart Books

Vastly limited in my ability to look ahead in that way, I begin at the beginning, and I feel my way (often blindly) through. Never do I write so ...

John Irving Books In Order

Setting Free the Bears (1968) · Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1993) · A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound (2003) · The Imaginary Girlfriend (1996) ...

'If There Isn't Something That Disquiets You, Why Would You Do It?'

John Irving: I think I feel pretty present in the location I am in when I'm there, because so many of my novels have involved being a kind of ...

What It Takes - John Irving - VOA Learning English

00:00:23 ALICE WINKLER: But I need to start at the beginning. That voice belongs to John Irving. He's one of the finest and most widely read ...

John Irving: The Future Perfect - Guernica Magazine

John Irving: As many years as I took notes on books that I kind of let sit—like boxcars in a train station uncoupled from an engine—they just ...

Can anyone suggest a good John Irving novel?

Read any of his books I haven't. But I've seen the movie version of his book A Prayer for Owen Meany. The movie was pretty good. I have the book ...

I Hate John Irving - The Writer's Beat

Over the years I have tried reading three of his best-selling novels -- The World According To Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and A Prayer For ...

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Right you are, Mr. Irving. Probably why I like your books so much. 13 yrs.

John Irving | Academy of Achievement

First published in 1978, Garp received ecstatic reviews and sold prodigiously. It won its author a loyal worldwide audience. Passed over for the ...

John Irving — The Greatest Literature of All Time - Editor Eric

John Irving writes big books. Yes, long novels—longer than most contemporary works you find on the bestseller lists. But big in so many other ways. Big ...