Widow for one year

by John Irving

Overview

Nesomnennyy klassik sovremennoy literatury Zapada i odin iz ee neosporimyh liderov vvergaet chitatelya v zerkal'nyy labirint otrazheniy: strahi iz detskih knizhek nekogda populyarnogo pisatelya Teda Koula neozhidanno obrastayut plot'yu, i vot uzhe monstr iz skazki prevrashchaetsya v real'nogo man'yaka-ubiycu, chtoby pochti cherez sorok let doch' pisatelya, tozhe pisatel'nica, sobiraya material dlya romana, sdelalas' svidetel'nicey ego zhestokogo prestupleniya. No v pervuyu ochered' roman Irvinga o lyubvi. Atmosfera sgushchennoy chuvstvennosti, lyubvi bez beregov i ogranicheniy napolnyaet ego stranicy nekoy magneticheskoy siloy, prevrashchaya chitatelya v uchastnika volshebnogo deystva.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389084377
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	12/20/2022
Series:	??????-????????
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	640
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. That book, and a number of others, including The Cider House Rules, for which he won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, have been turned into films. Other popular Irving novels include A Prayer for Owen Meany and Avenue of Mysteries. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Hometown:

Vermont

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1942

Place of Birth:

Exeter, New Hampshire

Education:

B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1965; also studied at University of Vienna; M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1967