In One Person

This wonderful novel is an epic, moving survey of 70 years of sexual revolution * The Times *Deeply enjoyable… a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature * Guardian *Irving has rarely written with the gorgeous poise and control he musters here * Financial Times *In One Person gives a lot. It’s funny, as you would expect. It’s risky in what it exposes. Tolerance, in a John Irving novel is not about anything goes; it’s what happens when we face our own desires honestly, whether we act on them or not – Jeanette WintersonA brave and hugely affecting depiction of how in one life (sexual and otherwise) we contain multitudes * Elle *Boldly conceived and energetically executed * Spectator *Superbly conceived * Metro *A rich and absorbing book, even beautiful * Esquire *Told with Irving’s typically Dickensian scope and humanity, In One Person is a celebration of difference * The Word *Irving writes with clarity and compassion about the Aids epidemic: his forensic detailing of this merciless disease is deeply affecting * Irish Times *

John Irving’s fourth novel, The World According to Garp, won the National Book Award in 1980 and became his first international bestseller, later adapted into a film by George Roy Hill. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the 1984 film adaptation of The Hotel New Hampshire. Irving’s novels are translated into thirty-five foreign languages, with nine international bestsellers. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), a portrayal of enduring friendship during the divisive Vietnam War era, is often called “an American classic.” In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, having competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached the sport until he was forty-seven. In 2000, Irving won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules, a film nominated for seven Academy Awards. Tod Williams wrote and directed The Door in the Floor, the 2004 film adaptation of Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year. In One Person is John Irving’s thirteenth novel.

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