Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- John Irving
- First published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Diogenes Verlag AG
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9783257069662
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—Joh
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Kangastus 38 201392% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.
The Archive of the Forgotten 202089% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.- There Are Rivers in the Sky 202488% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.
La Loi 195788% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.
Disquiet Gods 202488% alikeBoth classical in form, spare, grave.
Gods of Want 202288% alikeBoth grave, spare, contemporary.
The Councillor 202188% alikeBoth classical in form, spare, grave.- When We Were Real 202588% alikeBoth spare, classical in form, grave.
- The Visitation 201177% alikeMusic · Both spare, grave, classical in form.
- The Divine Comedy 199477% alikeMusic · Both spare, classical in form, grave.