John Irving’s The Cider House Rules is an example of the evolutionary nature of the creative process of writing something as complex as a novel. Inspired by Victorian literature in general and the novels of Charles Dickens specifically, the novel...
A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel written by John Winslow Irving and published in 1989. Irving’s seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany recounts the life of John Wheelwright, whose best friend is named Owen Meany.
This novel was well received and...
Six years before becoming a household name with his grand picaresque novel about how a man named Garp saw the world, John Irving published his sophomore novel about a man known as Trumper. The Water Method Man can accurately be situated among the...
Prior to the publication of The World According to Garp in 1979, John Irving was an almost unknown but relatively highly regarded purveyor of serious fiction with a darkly comic bent and a much greater than average propensity for at least one of...
