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"Supple and energetic as a stylist, Mr. Irving also knows just how to create in the reader's mind a vivid impression of an existing world *and just how to populate it."
*The New York Times Book Review
"CANDID . . . COLORFUL . . . Those who have followed John Irving's writing career will delight in his newest, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. . . . Readers will leave this book feeling as if they have had a terrific conversation with Irving about why he writes and how he goes about it."
*USA Today
"[THIS] NEWEST BOOK IS A FIRST FOR IRVING: a collection of memoirs, short fiction, and essays. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed features tributes to Dickens and Günter Grass, whose novels percolate with a political and moral courage Irving admires. It also includes six short stories, a form Irving doesn't claim as his own. Reminiscences round out the collection, from his caustic recollections of an awkward dinner with former President Reagan to the title piece, in which the death of his town's garbage collector symbolically sparked the teenage Irving's desire to write."
*Minneapolis Star Tribune
"THESE PIECES ARE WORTH SAVING AND SAVORING. . . . Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is a welcome oasis on the long desert passage leading to John Irving's next novel."
*The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
"ENGAGINGLY CANDID . . . The essays on himself and other writers make the book valuable, for they tell us a great deal about Irving's views of fiction, much in the public eye since the success of Garp in 1978."
*Newsday
"A rich, wonderful and diverse look into the creative mind of one of America's most imaginative and passionate novelists. . . . Irving again proves he has enough imagination for 10 writers."
*The Denver Post
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Book Description First Canadian edition and first printing. Hardcover. 250 pages. A slim collection of short stories from the author of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The World According to Garp." This edition precedes the U.S edition by several years and was issued at or near the same time as the U.K. edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 187669
Book Description Hard Cover. First Canadian Edition. Near fine plus in price-clipped dust jacket. Printed from the British sheets. Precedes the U.S. edition by three years. Seller Inventory # 2285
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Canadian Edition Signed. clean with no highlights or remarks. name plate at the front endpaper. firs canadian edition. signed by John Irving at the title page. not price clipped. no remainder mark.- We ship from Canada and the USA. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # X10911x
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 250 pages. First Canadian edition, first printing. This collection of seven stories, six of which had never been published before, was published three years before the American edition. Dust jacket design by Jeffrey Fisher. As new book in a like dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Seller Inventory # 1293398916