The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules
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The Cider House Rules by John Irving
'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.' Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...
The Cider House Rules is difficult to define and impossible not to admire * Daily Telegraph *
John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and JD. Salinger but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft. This superbly original book is one to be read and remembered * The Times *
Funnier than Garp...it's an irresistibly readable yarn spun by a master's voice * Time Out *
Like the rest of Irving's fiction, it is often disconcerting, but always exciting and provoking * Observer *
John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and JD. Salinger but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft. This superbly original book is one to be read and remembered * The Times *
Funnier than Garp...it's an irresistibly readable yarn spun by a master's voice * Time Out *
Like the rest of Irving's fiction, it is often disconcerting, but always exciting and provoking * Observer *
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780552992046 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552992046 |
| Title | The Cider House Rules |
| Author | John Irving |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1986-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |