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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 Softcover. Condition: new. Anniversary. Here is a treat for devoted fans of John Irving First published twenty years ago Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author beginning with three memoirs The longest of the memoirs is The Imaginary Girlfriend his candid account of his twin careers in writing and wrestling which as the Denver Post observed is filled with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels and combines the lessons of both obsessionsThe middle portion of the book is fiction Over a career that spans thirteen novels these are the six stories that Mr Irving considers finished Among them is Interior Space for which he won the O Henry Award In the third and final section are three homages one to Gnter Grass and two to Charles Dickens To each of the twelve pieces he has contributed authors notes which provide some perspective on the circumstances surrounding the writing of each piece For readers who prefer a hardcover this commemorative edition is a book to treasure For new readers it is a perfect introduction to the author of works as moving and mischievous as The World According to GarpA Prayer for Owen Meany and In One Person. Seller Inventory # DADAX1628725893
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