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Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer:
'A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can remember. The correct detail is rarely exactly what happened; the most truthful detail is what could have happened, or what should have...Being a writer is a strenuous marriage between careful observation and just as carefully imagining the truths you haven't had the opportunity to see. The rest is the necessary strict toiling with the language...'
'With that in mind I think that I have become a writer because of my grandmother's good manners and - more specifically - because of a retarded garbage collector to whom my grandmother was always polite and kind.'
There follows six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, including The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According To Garp, and now given its first independent airing. The collection ends with a homage to Charles Dickens, of which the Sunday Telegraph said, 'so rousingly old-fashioned, so intelligent, so heart-felt, so politically incorrect and so correct in every way that matters, that it makes you want to dance naked through the streets brandishing a copy of Great Expectations.'
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.35. N° de réf. du vendeur G0394280105I4N01
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Shelfwear; jacket in "Plasti-Kleer" protective covering. Contents - Trying to Save Piggy Sneed; Interior Space; Almost in Iowa; Weary Kingdom; Brennbar's Rant; Other People's Dream; The Pension Grillparzer; The King of the Novel. Language: eng Language: eng. N° de réf. du vendeur 18061510
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Description du livre First Canadian edition and first printing. Hardcover. 250 pages. A slim collection of short stories from the author of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The World According to Garp." This edition precedes the U.S edition by several years and was issued at or near the same time as the U.K. edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 187669
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo., 250pp, Beautiful Stated First Canadian Edition and True First Edition, preceding the Arcade Edition published in the US. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($24.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price. N° de réf. du vendeur 015301