![]() ![]() ![]() Due to be released in October 2022, the new book is a ghost story, a love story, and an incisive exploration of contemporary sex and relationships, set against the ski slopes of Aspen, the lanes of New England, and beyond. His fifteenth and-according to the author- “last long novel” is The Last Chairlift. Other books include the international bestsellers A Prayer for Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire, Until I Find You and Avenue of Mysteries. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting his own novel The Cider House Rules. In 1980, Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp, which was also made into a critically acclaimed film. “He is as close as one gets to a contemporary Dickens,” TIME recently observed, “in the scope of his celebrity and the level of his achievement.” As prolific as he is revered, Irving has sold over 12 million books in 35 languages over four decades. Widely regarded as an American literary legend, John Irving’s expansive, multi-layered fiction addresses the insistent concerns of contemporary American life, including sexual politics, religious experience, and the fallibility of human institutions.
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