Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Irving, John

ISBN 10: 1559703237 / ISBN 13: 9781559703239

Edité par Arcade Publishing NY nd (1996), 1996

432pp. 12mo illustrated with black and white photos Purple boards and black cloth back 1st U.S. edition so stated Fine/Fine dj 1-55970-323-7. N° de réf. du vendeur 916120698

Synopsis :

Book by Irving John

Quatrième de couverture:

Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer:

'A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can remember. The correct detail is rarely exactly what happened; the most truthful detail is what could have happened, or what should have...Being a writer is a strenuous marriage between careful observation and just as carefully imagining the truths you haven't had the opportunity to see. The rest is the necessary strict toiling with the language...'

'With that in mind I think that I have become a writer because of my grandmother's good manners and - more specifically - because of a retarded garbage collector to whom my grandmother was always polite and kind.'

There follows six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, including The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According To Garp, and now given its first independent airing. The collection ends with a homage to Charles Dickens, of which the Sunday Telegraph said, 'so rousingly old-fashioned, so intelligent, so heart-felt, so politically incorrect and so correct in every way that matters, that it makes you want to dance naked through the streets brandishing a copy of Great Expectations.'

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Éditeur : Arcade Publishing NY nd (1996)
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : Edition originale