Avenue of Mysteries
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego-a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico-has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming-specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have hap…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4516-6417-1
- EAN: 9781451664171
- Produktnummer: 19177300
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.2 cm 510 g
- Gewicht: 510
Über den Autor
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.
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