In One Person (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Irving, John

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9781410450050: In One Person (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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ISBN 10: 1410450058 ISBN 13: 9781410450050

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2012

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His most political novel since "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," John Irving's "In One Person" is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."

Advance praise for John Irving's "In One Person"

"This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny--it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the '80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients' deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the other losses--namely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. "In One Person" is the novel that for me will define that era. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best." --Abraham Verghese, author of "Cutting for Stone "and "My Own Country"

""In One Person" is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiarities--in a fierce, not a saccharine, way. Now he has extended his sympathies--and ours--still further into areas that even the misfits eschew. Anthropologists say that the interstitial--whatever lies between two familiar opposites--is usually declared either taboo or sacred. John Irving in this magnificent novel--his best and most passionate since "The World According to Garp"--has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?"""--Edmund White, author of "City Boy" and "Genet: A Biography"

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Review:

"This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny--it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the '80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients' deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the "other" losses--namely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. "In One Person" is the novel that for me will define that era. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best."

-- Abraham Verghese

""In One Person" is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiarities--in a fierce, not a saccharine, way. Now he has extended his sympathies--and ours--still further into areas that even the misfits eschew. Anthropologists say that the interstitial--whatever lies between two familiar opposites--is usually declared either taboo or sacred. John Irving in this magnificent novel--his best and most passionate since "The World According to Garp"--has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?"

-- Edmund White

"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade."--"Vanity Fair"

"A brave and affecting depiction of how in one life (sexual and otherwise) we contain multitudes."--"Elle"

"It is impossible to imagine the American - or international - literary landscape without John Irving....He has sold tens of millions of copies of his books, books that have earned descriptions like "epic" and "extraordinary" and "controversial" and "sexually brave". And yet, unlike so many writers in the contemporary canon, he manages to write books that are both critically acclaimed and beloved for their sheer readability. He is as close as one gets to a contemporary Dickens in the scope of his celebrity and the level of his achievement." "--Time"

"Gorgeous...Irving remains a master builder when it comes to constructing an epic plot filled with satisfying twists." -"Entertainment Weekly"""

""In One Person" is a rich and absorbing book, even beautiful."--"Esquire"

"Cause for excitement: John Irving's "In One Person", his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade, follows the life of charming Billy, an ambitious, bisexual writer as he pursues his desires...Theatrical, generous, sad."--"Vanity Fair"

"[In One Person] is a staggeringly ambitious work, and its success reaffirms Irving's place among our greatest working novelists." --"BookPage" (Fiction Top Pick, May 2012)

"Few writers can craft misfits with the tenderness of Irving, and this tragicomic portrait of a bisexual man is a masterpiece of sympathy and imagination."--"Departures"

Book Description:

Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity

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