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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552995733

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 157g

  • RRP: £9.99

Trying To Save Piggy Sneed

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552995733

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 157g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "Inventive incident, deft characterization and vivid language are all here"

    Irving Weinman, The Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

John Irving

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. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.

John Irving

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