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A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen ...Show more
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
" I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. " In the summer of 1953, ...Show more
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This is the story of Ruth Cole. It is told in three parts: on Long Island, in the summer of 1958, when she is only four; in 1990, when she ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich; John McKnight; Irving K. Zola; Jonathan Caplan; Harley Shaiken
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Open Forum Ser.
How the caring professions destabilise our lives: a radical analysis of the welfare power-base.
In One Person by John Irving
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling 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, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a centu ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling 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 ...Show more
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, ...Show more
Still Life - Irving Penn Photographs 1938-2000 by Irving Penn; John Szarkowski
$160.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Irving Penn is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. His elegant and innovative photographs are the subject of this volume. It includes some 200 images.
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S.
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S.
'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels'. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
$50.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years -- a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is call ...Show more