From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel...
From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). A
New York Times bestselling 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 of
In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases,"
The World According to Garp.
In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers--a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least,
In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 01/29/2013
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781451664133
Review Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 02/24/2013 pg. 24
About the AuthorJohn Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel,
Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel
The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for
The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel
In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is
A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.
