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Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Librairie Thé à la page, Montélimar, France
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Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Doubleday collection , 2012. 1 volume format In-8 bon.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1703254231. 12/22/2023 2:10:31 PM.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
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Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
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Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
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Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Published by Transworld Publishers Limited, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780857520968.
Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Brit Books, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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Published by Doubleday Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bargain book!.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: HR1 Books, Hereford, United Kingdom
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Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with bumped foot of spine and upper leading corner of front board. Upper leading corner of dust jacket is lightly creased. Minor crease on upper leading corner of page 371; otherwise pages are clean and tight throughout. T. Used.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Antiquariat Buchhandel Daniel Viertel, Diez, Germany
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8°, gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. Auflage: First Edition. 425 Seiten, 24 cm, Exemplar gut erhalten, Mit Original Schutzumschlag, 30 ISBN 9780857520968 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 710.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Jaycee Books., London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, black boards & maroon end papers, unclipped, gold embossed gilt spine, bubble wrapped, mylar pro; 5* seller. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love -- tormented, funny, and affecting -- and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 -- in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases', The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers -- a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention.
Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Mikes Book Market, North Lancaster, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING FULL NUMBER LINE,SQUARE CLEAN BOARDS WITH SHARP CORNERS,TEXT FINE,STRONG BINDING,DJ UNCLIPPED SOME CHIPPING,NOT REMAINDERED,
Published by Random House UK, Transworld, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Germany
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Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - The protagonist and first person narrator of In One Person, Billy Abbott, is bisexual. Why do you think bisexuals are rarely represented in literature Irving, John: The bisexual men I have known were not shy, nor were they 'conflicted'. (This is also true of the bisexual men I know now.) I would say, too, that both my oldest and youngest bisexual male friends are among the most confident men I have ever known. Yet bisexual men - of my generation, especially - were generally distrusted. Their gay male friends thought of them as gay guys who were hedging their bets, or holding back - or keeping a part of themselves in the closet. To most straight men, the only part of a bisexual man that registers is the gay part; to many straight women, a bi guy is doubly untrustworthy - he could leave you for another woman or for a guy! The bisexual occupies what Edmund White calls 'the interstitial - whatever lies between two familiar opposites'. I can't speculate on why other writers may choose to eschew the bisexual as a potential main character - especially as a point-of-view character (Billy Abbott is an outspoken first-person narrator). I just know that sexual misfits have always appealed to me; writers are outsiders - at least we're supposed to be 'detached'. Well, I find sexual outsiders especially engaging. There is the gay brother in The Hotel New Hampshire; there are the gay twins (separated at birth) in A Son of the Circus; there are transsexual characters in The World According to Garp and in A Son of the Circus, and now again (this time, much more developed as characters) in In One Person. I like these people; they attract me, and I fear for their safety - I worry about who might hate them and wish them harm. Great Expectations has an enormous influence on Billy in more than one respect. What are some of the books that helped to define and influence you at a young age John Irving: Like Billy, I spent some of my childhood backstage in a small-town theatre; my mother, who - in many respects - was not like Billy's mother, was a prompter in a small-town theatre. My earliest interest in storytelling came from the theatre, and I imagined myself as an actor (onstage, never in the movies) before I imagined being a novelist. But Great Expectations, and other novels by Dickens, inspired me to want to write those plotted, character-driven novels of the 19th century - also Hardy, Melville, Hawthorne; also Flaubert and Mann and the Russian writers. But before I was old enough to appreciate those novels, I saw Shakespeare and Sophocles onstage; those plays have plots. There were plots in the theatre - centuries before the earliest novels were written. Y ou do a magnificent job portraying the AIDS crisis in New York in this novel. Was it difficult for you to encapsulate this moment in history John Irving: If you mean 'difficult' in terms of research, no. Other novels have been much harder, in terms of research - in terms of having to teach myself about something foreign to me - than In One Person. But, yes, it was difficult - personally. I lived in New York City from '81 till '86; I was there at the start of the AIDS crisis, I lost friends (young and old) to that disease. I had no desire to revisit some of those memories. But I have two good friends (and fellow writers) who I knew would be reading this manuscript - over my shoulder, so to speak. I doubt I would have begun writing In One Person if I didn't know I could count on these two friends as essential readers: Edmund White and Abraham Verghese. I knew if I made a mistake, they would catch it; I have complete faith in their authority. They gave me confidence; they allowed me to write freely - they were my safety nets. In One Person features some of the classic signatures that your readers have come to expect to find in your books: wrestling, living abroad in Vienna, the loss of childhood innocence, an absent parent, New England boarding schools, sexual deviants, etc. What is it that attracts you to these themes and settings again and again John Irving: Ah, well - there are the subjects for fiction or the 'themes' you choose, and then there are the obsessions that choose you. Wrestling is something I know: I competed as a wrestler for twenty years; I coached the sport till I was forty-seven. The life in a New England boarding school, and living as a student abroad in Vienna - these are simply things I know very well. I choose them because I have no end of detail in my memory bank, regarding those oh-so-familiar things. But 'the loss of childhood innocence', or 'the absent parent', and those sexual outsiders and/or misfits I am repeatedly attracted to in my fiction - well, I do not choose to write about those things. Those things obsess me; those things choose me. You don't get to pick the nightmare that wakes you up at 4 A.M., do you That nightmare comes looking for you, again and again. What was behind your choice to make libraries such an important part of Billy Abbott's development John Irving: I love libraries. I used to read in libraries, write in libraries, hide in libraries; libraries embrace a code of silence - that was just fine with me. I went to libraries to be left alone. So much of being a writer is seeking to be alone - actually, needing to be alone. Bookstores aren't the same; they're social places. I was a fairly antisocial kid; libraries were my cave. Was your experience with writing In One Person different from your other books If so, how Did you write the last sentence first, as you're famous for doing No, not different - very much the same. I always begin with endings, with last sentences - usually more than a single last sentence, often a last paragraph (or two). I compose an ending and write toward it, as if the ending were a piece of music I can hear - however many years ahead of me it is waiting. The ending to.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Westmoor Books, Bedale, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, first impression in Fine condition, Near Fine unclipped DJ, now in protective clear wrap.pages lightly toned.
Published by Doubleday, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Books & Cabinets, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Not price-clipped. No markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket with bumping to edges and corners.
Published by Doubleday, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
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Condition: As New. Englisch.
Published by Doubleday (a Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd.), 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: Wolk Media & Entertainment, Amsterdam, NEDER, Netherlands
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Z 19-16 080621.
Published by Doubleday Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: No Dust Jacket. No Cds. Good. book.
Published by -, 2012
ISBN 10: 0857520962ISBN 13: 9780857520968
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. In One Person This book is in fair condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.