John Irving (1) (1942–)
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Sull'Autore
John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. (Publisher Provided) John Irving was mostra altro born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His named was changed to John Winslow Irving when his stepfather adopted him at the age of six. He was a dyslexic child and it took him five years to get through Exeter Academy, which is where his adoptive father taught Russian history. He received a B.A. (cum laude) from the University of New Hampshire in 1965 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, in 1967, where he studied with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His first novel was Setting Free the Bears (1969) but it wasn't until The World According to Garp was published in 1978, that he became a literary star. The novel spent six months on the bestseller list and won the American Book Award in 1980. It was also made into a movie in 1982 starring Robin Williams and costarring Glenn Close and John Lithgow. In 1981, he received an O. Henry Award for the short story Interior Space. Some of his other novels were also made into movies including The Hotel New Hampshire starring Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe; A Prayer for Owen Meany, which was titled Simon Birch starring Jim Carrey; and The Cider House Rules starring Michael Caine. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules in 2000. Irving also wrote two memoirs; one detailing his wrestling adventures entitled The Imaginary Girlfriend, and another concerning his novels made into Hollywood films entitled My Movie Business: A Memoir. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di John Irving
Acht Amerikaanse verhalen 18 copie
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing 8 copie
A Teacher's Guide for a Prayer for Owen Meany: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2014) 3 copie
Boston Mercy and the Pension Grillparzer/from the World According to Garp/2 Audio Cassettes (1986) 2 copie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Thumb Tripping / The End of the Road / The World According to Garp 1 copia
The Boston Review 1 copia
Hotel New Hampshire-V1 1 copia
Hotel New Hampshire-V2 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 447 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduzione — 376 copie
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Collaboratore — 295 copie
Liefde en bedrog: zeven hartstochtelijke verhalen — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Irving, John Winslow
- Altri nomi
- Blunt, John Wallace, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1942-03-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Istruzione
- University of New Hampshire
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Phillips Exeter Academy
University of Pittsburgh
University of Vienna - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
teacher
wrestling coach - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2001])
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award (2000)
National Wrestling Hall of Fame (1992)
National Book Award (1980 for The World According to Garp)
Utenti
Discussioni
Takes place in Amsterdam in Name that Book (Febbraio 2013)
Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Luglio 2012)
Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (planning thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Luglio 2012)
A Prayer for Owen Meany in Someone explain it to me... (Agosto 2011)
50 States Fiction and Nonfiction Reads in Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge (Aprile 2011)
Recensioni
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Five star books (1)
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Must-Read Maine (1)
Overdue Podcast (2)
AP Lit (2)
BBC Big Read (2)
A Novel Cure (3)
1980s (3)
Unread books (5)
Favourite Books (1)
1970s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 55
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 88,787
- Popolarità
- #116
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1,399
- ISBN
- 1,348
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 673
Troppo pesante, confuso, con pochi slanci di ironia che hanno invece contraddistino tanti altri suoi libri.
A tutto questo non aiuta una traduzione veramente obsoleta, che andrebbe rifatta da cima a fondo.
Sinceramente non lo consiglio nemmeno ai fan di Irving!