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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."
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"[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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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
Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. To open this spirited collection, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years ending with a homage to Charles Dickens. This irresistible collection cannot fail to delight and charm.
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0552142026
- ISBN 13 9780552142021
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 224 pages. Text tannedReviews When the going gets tough, the tough.go through their desk drawers. John Irving has not been on top of his game since The Cider House Rules (LJ 6/1/85) and in an effort to showcase the old talent, Irving offers a collection of past writings. Not strictly a work of fiction, Sneed includes memoirs, short stories, and Homages-tributes to Charles Dickens and G¼nter Grass. Written in 1967 when Irving was a student at th e Iowa Writer's Workshop, Weary Kingdom, about a middle-aged dorm mother at a Boston college, reveals a maturing writer, growing c omfortable portraying the quirky aspects of his subjects that cha racterize his work. The Imaginary Girlfriend, the most recent of the essays (to be illustrated with Irving's photos-not seen), out lines the parallel lines of his wrestling career and reading hist ory. In spite of its unevenness, Sneed is recommended for fiction and literature collections based on Irving's reputation.-Adam Ma zmanian, Library Journal Irving proves himself, once again, a ga rrulous and engaging raconteur in this collection of fiction and nonfiction divided into three sections: Memoirs, Fiction and Homa ge. In the last, while admiring the work of Gunter Grass, he note s that ``Grass is never so insecure as to be polite.'' Given Irvi ng's fascination with the malfunctioning or assaulted human body, one can't help feeling that he's defending his own work'both acn e (in the story, ``Brennbar's Rant'') and genital warts (the O. H enry Prize-winning ``Interior Space'') figure in these pages. Som etimes, however, Irving's grotesquerie lacks the compassion with which his favorite writer, Dickens, moderated his caricatures. In the title essay (in which Irving relates his discovery of the po wers of fiction-making), Piggy Sneed, the retarded garbage collec tor and pig farmer whose disappearance stimulates Irving's imagin ation, is harshly ridiculed: Sneed ``smelled worse than any man I ever smelled'with the possible exception of a dead man I caught the scent of, once, in Istanbul.'' There are other, more engaging pieces: an amusing account of a dinner at the Reagan White House ; an early, sentimental story, ``Weary Kingdom,'' about a lonely woman; and, best of all, ``The Imaginary Girlfriend,'' a rambling autobiographical sketch with a heavy emphasis on the mentors and rivals who shaped Irving's defining obsessions'wrestling and wri ting. Each of the 12 sections is followed by ``Author's Notes''; ``The Imaginary Girlfriend'' is supplemented with personal photog raphs (not seen by PW). 150,000 first printing; BOMC selection; a uthor tour. (Feb.). Seller Inventory # 1315w
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