The Cider House Rules

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 *

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.

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