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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNHere 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 Etat : Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. N° de réf. du vendeur 42681786-75
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184pp. First published 1993; this copy, stated: "This edition published 1995" with no number line or printings cited. Black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering and design elements on spine. Light yellow dustwrapper not price-clipped ([BPS] 9.95 net), with patterned red lines connecting vertical two-tone discs in background for lighter yellow author name and title box at middle front cover; slight rubbing wear at top two corners and in thin line across top spine end, only hint of ruffling across top edges due to dw riding too high. Binding tight, corners sharp, No rubbing wear (dw did its job), No previous owner names. Clean text. N° de réf. du vendeur 001279