Trying to save Piggy Sneed / John Irving.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, John, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irving, John, 1942-.

Irving, John.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 437 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, [1997]

Summary:

This gem, a delightful collection of shorter works, both fiction and nonfiction, written by one of the country's finest--and funniest--writers, includes a living portrait of Irving's grandmother, a new, never-before-published essay, six scintillating short stories--including the O. Henry Award-winning "Interior Space"--and two essays on Irving's favorite 19th-century novelist, Charles Dickens. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is John Irving at the top of his form. Illustrations.

Contents:

Memoirs: Trying to save Piggy Sneed; The imaginary girlfriend; My dinner at the White House

Fiction: Interior space; Brennbar's rant; The Pension Grillparzer; Other people's dreams; Weary kingdom; Almost in Iowa

Homage: The king of the novel; An introduction to A Christmas carol; Günter Grass, king of the toy merchants.

Notes:

"Originally published by Arcade Publishing, Inc., New York, in 1996 in slightly different form."

ISBN:

0345404742 :

9780345404749

OCLC:

36428192

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