
The main character of John Irving`s second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to...
This is the life of , the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes-even of sexual...
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It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a...
This story about an orphan and a childless doctor in rural Maine who develop an extraordinary bond is being released to coincide with a major motion picture from Miramax starring Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron,...
Fred `Bogus` Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy`s. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that...
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered...
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells` odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud`s orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or...
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...
