Avenue of Mysteries

John Irving (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2016
Doubleday (Verlag)
9780857521149 (ISBN)

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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 childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. 'An aura of fate had marked him,' John Irving writes. 'The chain of events, the links in our lives - what leads us where we're going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don't see coming, and what we do - all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.' Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past - in Mexico - collides with his future.

John 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. Mr Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O Henry Award in 1981 for his short story 'Interior Space'. In 2000, Mr Irving 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. An international writer - his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages - John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 240 mm
Gewicht	756 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-13	9780857521149 / 9780857521149
Zustand	Neuware