John Irving

The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: How can anyone identify a dream of the future? The answer: Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love.While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand...

Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman and a faithful wife for twenty-two years has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth.By the age of thirty-six, Ruth Cole has become an internationally acclaimed novelist. But she is an angry, impulsive,...

Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium, UNESCO Building, Paris, France, May 5-8, 1980Atmospheric pollution 1980...

A NovelBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's In One Person.Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.  When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports...

A NovelBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's In One Person.Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "e;difficult"e; woman.By no means is she conventionally "e;nice,"e; but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her...

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church...