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Cider House Rules - The Novel

Cider House Rules - The Novel

by JohnIrving (Author)

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    Paperback 1986

    $12.53
Synopsis

Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether.Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especically Homer Wells. It is Homer's story we follow, from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 704
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 01 Jul 1986
ISBN 10: 0552992046
ISBN 13: 9780552992046
Book Overview: A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

Media Reviews
The Cider House Rules is difficult to define and impossible not to admire * Daily Telegraph *
John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J. D. 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 *
Author Bio
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.