“Relationships haunt you—not only what happens between two people, but also what might have happened.”
“Few skewer sanctimony quite like Irving at his best. More important: I fell in love, once again, with his people.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Queen Esther is a masterpiece — a masterpiece of storytelling, endlessly surprising and brilliantly written.” — freundin
“Relationships haunt you—not only what happens between two people, but also what might have happened.”
“Few skewer sanctimony quite like Irving at his best. More important: I fell in love, once again, with his people.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Queen Esther is a masterpiece — a masterpiece of storytelling, endlessly surprising and brilliantly written.” — freundin
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 has written sixteen novels over the course of his prolific career, the majority of which have been international bestsellers.
In 1980, Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. An international writer, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.
