In a New Hampshire town, a small boy with an unusual voice believes he is God's instrument after a tragic baseball accident, changing his best friend's life and faith in 20th-century America.
In a world of ether addiction, unwanted pregnancies, and the sweet-sour tang of cider, an orphan named Homer navigates love, loyalty, and the moral complexities of his mentor's controversial legacy in rural Maine.
After losing a hand to a lion, a cynical TV journalist receives a transplant from a dead man whose widow demands visitation rights, forcing them into a bizarre relationship that challenges their notions of loss, connection, and second chances.
Haunted by a tattoo-addicted organist father and a mother scarred by his absence, a young actor grapples with his own indelible marks left by a parade of older women.
Through the eyes of bisexual narrator Billy, John Irving crafts a half-century spanning, tragicomic saga of unfulfilled love, sexual identity, and the poignant solitariness of a man navigating a world that struggles to categorize him.
After a boy mistakes a constable's girlfriend for a bear, he and his father flee across half a century of American life, forever pursued by an unyielding hatred born in the logging camps of New Hampshire.
An Indian film star, an American missionary, and a group of eccentrics, including separated twins and a dwarf chauffeur, head for a showdown with a serial killer in a story of fate and dark comedy.
