JOHN IRVING

American film writer and screenwriter born on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire, with the name of John Wallace Blunt. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire, after which he traveled to Vienna to complete his studies. He gained fame after the publication of his fourth novel, The World According to Garp (1976). Since then he became one of the most important American writers.

Recurring themes in Irving’s novels are New England (especially Phillips Exeter Academy), Austria (due to his two-year stint in Vienna), bears, prostitution, parental absence, and wrestling, one of his favorites. great hobbies. The appearance of unorthodox sexual elements and attitudes such as incest, transsexualism or rape, as well as accidental deaths, is also common in his works, as critics of his work have shown.

He was awarded the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000 for the adaptation of his 1985 play The Cider House Rules.

SYNOPSIS

From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade (Vanity Fair).

A New York Times bestselling 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 of In One Person, 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.

In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers--a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile.