John Irving Books
Everyone's an actor, in an amateur-dramatic society whose prompter has
fallen ill and whose audience comes only for the pleasure of hating the
show and leaving at the interval. So try not to be too harsh on your
fellow players. Something like this metatheatrical moral drives John Irving's deeply enjoyable new novel, which has a Shakespearean title (from Richard II:
"Thus play I in one person many people, / And none contented"), and a
large part of which centres on an amateur-dramatic society in late-1950s
New England. Simon and Schuster recently confirmed that they will publish Irving's
next two novels, and that "In One Person" will be published by summer,
2012. In a recent press release, Irving's new publisher—taking over from
Random House—stated that another book is tentatively scheduled for
2015. And in an interview found the Simon & Schuster website—where
the first, approximately, 20 pages of "In One Person", as well as a
short video of Irving doing a reading, can be found—when asked about his
not-yet-written fourteenth novel, Irving states, "As for right now, I
am thinking of four ideas, but I haven’t chosen one: a ghost story, a
miracle story, a love story, an adoption story."
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
John Irving Books
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