John Irving

Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving's understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the 1960s. The …

'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named …

Hotel New Hampshire er skrevet af John Irving og stammer fra 1981. Bogen tager udgangspunkt i den alternative familien Berrys liv. Vi møder, foruden en far og mor, således hele 5 unger samt hund, bjørn og mange andre interessante former for indslag. Bogen indeholder typiske Irving-elemeter i form af bjørne, Wien, …

John Irving's third and perhaps darkest novel, The 158-Pound Marriage examines the sexual revolution-era trend of "swinging" via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences.