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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
27.99 NZD
32.00 (12% off)
Category: General Fiction
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes that he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifyin ...Show more
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
29.99 NZD
36.00 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus'. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic ...Show more
A Sound Like Someone Try Not Make S by John Irving
35.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually realising that it is nothing to be scared of. An empowering book about over coming ones fears handled with brilliant originality b ...Show more
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toro ...Show more
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Written between 1965 and 1967, Setting Free the Bears is 'sensual, moving, truly remarkable' (Time), and concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving
24.99 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these conv ...Show more