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John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998) have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of The Cider House Rules.

Five of his novels have been adapted into films (Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow). Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.

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John Irving

Hotel New Hampshire

Denne store familieroman udspiller sig i starten af 2. Verdenskrig frem til engang i 1980erne, og rammen er familien Berrys tre forskellige hoteller, som de driver med ildhu og originalitet. Det første ligger i en en nedlagt pigeskole i en lille amerikansk provinsby, det andet ligger i Wien og det tredje ligger i New Hampshire i Maine. Dette sidste kommer til at fungere som et krisecenter for voldsramte kvinder, og her folder de meget forskellige familiemedlemmer deres noget bizarre talenter ud. John Irving er født i Exeter, New Hampshire, i 1942. Han debuterede med romanen Slip bjørnene fri i 1968, og siden er det blevet til tolv romaner. John Irving bor i Vermont og Toronto med sin familie.

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Printed pages474 Sider

Publish date01 Aug 2013

Published byLindhardt og Ringhof

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ISBN epub9788711355275

ISBN audio9788711389256