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Item Details
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THE IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND
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| By: |
John Irving |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448111927 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448111923 |
| Publisher: |
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2012 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
A portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. It portrays a father's dedication to his children: Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles - a championship that, as a competitor, he himself was denied. |
| Synopsis: |
From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. Moreover, this candid memoir portrays a father's dedication to his children: Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles - a championship that, as a competitor, he himself was denied.John Irving began writing and wrestling when he was fourteen. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, he was certified as a referee for twenty-four and he coached the sport until he was forty-seven. His thirty-three years in wrestling are three times those he spent as a student and a teacher of Creative Writing; yet his concise autobiography details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling - from the days when Irving was a beginner at both pursuits until his fourth wrestling-related surgery at the age of fifty-three.The Imaginary Girlfriend is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Transworld Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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