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First publish date: 1996
Authors: John Irving
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📘 The lovely bones
 by Alice Sebold

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

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📘 A Prayer for Owen Meany
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John Irving’s narrative follows two eleven‑year‑old boys in New Hampshire whose friendship is shattered when a foul ball kills one boy’s mother. The survivor, Owen Meany, believes he is a divine instrument, and the novel traces the impact of that belief on his life and the lives of those around him.

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📘 The CIDER HOUSE RULES
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A tale set in rural Maine about a young doctor and his orphaned patient, the story of the CIDER HOUSE RULES.

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📘 In One Person
 by John Irving

John Irving’s New York Times bestseller chronicles the life of bisexual narrator Billy over more than a half‑century, exploring desire, secrecy and self‑acceptance in a rich mosaic of family, friends and lovers.

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📘 The Hotel New Hampshire
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John Irving’s comedy‑drama follows the eccentric Berry family as they move from the United States to Europe, taking refuge in three distinctive hotels and drawing a colorful cast of friends who replace conventional propriety with passion, violence, and laughter.

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📘 Olive Kitteridge
 by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge follows a retired teacher in a small Maine coastal town as she navigates love, loss and the quiet complexities of middle‑age life.

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📘 The world according to Garp
 by John Irving

"A Henry Robbins book."

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📘 A son of the circus
 by John Irving

A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event.From the Hardcover edition.

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📘 Trying to save Piggy Sneed
 by John Irving

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs - two of which (including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers. The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is the core of this collection. The middle section of the book is fiction. In 28 years, John Irving has written eight novels - but only a half-dozen short stories that he considers "finished"; they are all published here. In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on Gunter Grass, two on Charles Dickens. To each of the 12 pieces, which cover 30 years of writing, Mr. Irving has contributed his Author's Notes.

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