John Irving

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The No. 2 spot on the Canadian Business list is occupied by Irving Oil owners James Arthur and John Irving at $7.28 billion. The Irving group owns refineries, gasoline stations, trucking, shipbuilding, forestry and media businesses in...

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Lucy Daniel is absorbed by Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving's new novel Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving John Irving aficionados, and there are many, could easily write a list of everything they would look for in a...

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...I'm afraid he rather misjudged the mood." Could happen to any of us. As the author of hit novels such as The World According to Garp, John Irving is famed for his vivid imagination. But even he couldn't have dreamed up what happened when...

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...are recurring themes but also familiar devices. When the frying pan is described in the book, readers are thinking that something very John Irving is going to happen with it, right? A. Why did Shakespeare write about dysfunctional royal...

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John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one — even at 67, even wildly famous as one of America’s great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller.

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Article:'Last Night in Twisted River,' by John Irving:/c/a/2009/11/06/RV931A86B3. DTL 'Last Night in Twisted River,' by John Irving Michael Berry, Special to The Chronicle To be an avid reader of John Irving is to court disappointment.

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The bear makes its first appearance on Page 28. Because we're in a John Irving novel, tragedy is practically guaranteed to follow. "It was an accident," a character declares after the unfortunate death that triggers the plot of "Last Night...

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By Edward McAllister Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound (165-kg) man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning. The portly man was lying perfectly still when Irving found him. Upon...

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"Last Night in Twisted River" by John Irving; Random (553 pages, $28) The bear makes its first appearance on Page 28. Because we're in a John Irving novel, tragedy is practically guaranteed to follow. "It was an accident," a character...

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