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From John IrvingIn my opinion, no overview of my novels is better written or more insightful than the Introduction Terrence Des Pres wrote to 3 by Irving (Random House), which published in one volume my first three novels-- The 158-Pound Marriage being the third. In his evaluation of Setting Free the Bears, The Water-Method Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage, Des Pres saw emerging themes, which were afforded fuller orchestration in The World According to Garp. Using Garp as a mirror to reflect recurrent images and subjects established in my first three novels, he makes a good case for the healing, even spiritually renewing qualities of comedy--a kind of laughter-against-pain thesis. No such thesis written on my fiction has meant as much to me--before or since. And Terrence Des Pres wrote this Introduction to 3 by Irving in 1980. It holds up. Read the introduction by Terrence Des Pres >
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John Irving won a National Book Award in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. A Prayer for Owen Meany was published in 1989.
In 1992, Mr. Irving 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. Media Inquiries> |
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