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The best-selling author of The World According to Garp presents a firsthand account of his involvement--or lack thereof--in the creation of the film versions of his novels, detailing his years of writing and rewriting his screenplay for The Cider House Rules. 100,000 first printing.
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"Writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath. . . . This short, amiable book is John Irving's personal history of seeing--or not seeing--his novels made into movies. . . . The book digresses charmingly and effortlessly into related subjects. There is a beguiling memoir of his grandfather, an eminent surgeon; a brilliant and passionate argument for the freedom of women to choose abortion . . . observations on the origins of his novels, and so on. . . . Irving remains cooly objective, and it is clear why: he is a novelist, first and foremost, and his attitude toward the movie business is informed by this security and certainty. . . . Irving has done us [writers] proud."
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John Winslow Irving is the author of nine novels, among them A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Widow for One Year.
"My grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1910. He was an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital and later became chief of staff at the Boston Lying-In--a pioneer institution, founded in 1832. In my grandfather's day, the Boston Lying-In had already become one of the world's leading obstetrical hospitals.
"Dr. Irving was also a professor of obstetrics at Harvard, and the author of three books: The Expectant Mother's Handbook, A Textbook of Obstetrics, and a biography of the Boston Lying-In Hospital called Safe Deliverance. The last was chiefly a history
"My grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1910. He was an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital and later became chief of staff at the Boston Lying-In--a pioneer institution, founded in 1832. In my grandfather's day, the Boston Lying-In had already become one of the world's leading obstetrical hospitals.
"Dr. Irving was also a professor of obstetrics at Harvard, and the author of three books: The Expectant Mother's Handbook, A Textbook of Obstetrics, and a biography of the Boston Lying-In Hospital called Safe Deliverance. The last was chiefly a history
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- Publication date1999
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