The Imaginary Girlfriend
Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was fourteen, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, was certified as a referee at twenty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven. Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles, a championship that he himself was denied.In an autobiography fille…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62872-412-7
- EAN: 9781628724127
- Produktnummer: 31907228
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 123 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 828 KB
- Auflage: Ebook Original
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John Irving is the author of thirteen novels. He won the National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. He also won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the movie based on his novel The Cider House Rules. His most recent novel, In One Person, won a 2013 Lambda Literary Award. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He lives in Vermont and in Toronto with his wife, Janet.
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