The Imaginary Girlfriend Paperback / softback
by John Irving
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:01/03/1997
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- ISBN:9780552996808
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:01/03/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780552996808