In One Person

Resumen del libro

His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile.

Advance praise for John Irving's In One Person:
This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the '80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients' deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the other losses namely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. In One Person is the novel that for me will define that era. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best. Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country

In One Person is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiarities in a fierce, not a saccharine, way. Now he has extended his sympathies and ours still further into areas that even the misfits eschew. Anthropologists say that the interstitial whatever lies between two familiar opposites is usually declared either taboo or sacred. John Irving in this magnificent novel his best and most passionate since The World According to Garp has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art? Edmund White, author of City Boy and Genet: A Biography

Biografía del autor

John Irving nació en Exeter (New Hampshire) en 1942. Tusquets Editores ha publicado sus novelas El mundo según Garp; El hotel New Hampshire; Príncipes de Maine, reyes de Nueva Inglaterra; La epopeya del bebedor de agua; Oración por Owen; Libertad para los osos; Un hijo del circo; Una mujer difícil; La cuarta mano; Hasta que te encuentre, Personas como yo y Avenida de los Misterios, así como el libro de relatos La novia imaginaria, el volumen autobiográfico Mis líos con el cine y el cuento infantil El ruido que hace alguien cuando no quiere hacer ruido. Irving ha sido galardonado por la Fundación Rockefeller, por el National Endowment for the Arts y por la Fundación Guggenheim; ha recibido asimismo el Ox{0026} x02019;Henry Award y el National Book Award (del que ha estado nominado tres veces), y en el año 2000 recibió el Oscar por el guion para la película Las normas de la Casa de la Sidra, basado en su novela Príncipes de Maine, reyes de Nueva Inglaterra y protagonizada por Michael Caine.