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In One Person
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  • Published: 10 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448123766
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 16 hr 19 min
  • Narrator: John Benjamin Hickey
  • RRP: $24.99

In One Person

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10 May 2012
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10 May 2012
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3 June 2013
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Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity

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 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.

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. 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.\"
  • Published: 10 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448123766
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 16 hr 19 min
  • Narrator: John Benjamin Hickey
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he 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. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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Also by John Irving

Avenue of Mysteries
Last Night in Twisted River
Until I Find You
The Fourth Hand
A Widow For One Year
Setting Free The Bears
The Water-Method Man
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Praise for In One Person

This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic and funny - it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best.

Abraham Verghese

In One Person is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career Irving has always cherished our peculiarities - in a fierce, not a saccharine way. Now he has extended his sympathies - and ours - still further into areas that even the misfits eschew. John Irving in this magnificent novel - his best and most passionate since The World According to Garp - has sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?

Edmund White