John Irving
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"In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your...
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
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Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.
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Ballantine Books
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1990, 1974
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English
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The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of "The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style.