Acknowledgments
Jamey Bradbury
Rob Buyea
David Calicchio
Dean Cooke
Emily Copeland
Peter Delacorte
David Ebershoff
Amy Edelman
Marie-Anne Esquivié
Paul Fedorko
Vicente Molina Foix
Rodrigo Fresán
Ruth Geiger
Ron Hansen
Sheila Heffernon
Alan Hergott
Everett Irving
Janet Turnbull Irving
Josée Kamoun
Jonathan Karp
Katie Kelley
Rick Kelley
Kate Medina
Jan Morris
Anna von Planta
David Rowland
Marty Schwartz
Nick Spengler
Helga Stephenson
Abraham Verghese
Edmund White
ABOUT JOHN IRVING
The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving’s fourth novel and his first international bestseller; it also became a George Roy Hill film. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). Irving’s novels are now translated into thirty-five languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called “an American classic” is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), the portrayal of an enduring friendship at that time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States.
In 1992, John Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, until he was thirty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven.) In 2000, Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules, a Lasse Hallström film that earned seven Academy Award nominations. Tod Williams wrote and directed The Door in the Floor, the 2004 film adapted from Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year.
In One Person is John Irving’s thirteenth novel.
ALSO BY JOHN IRVING
Setting Free the Bears
The Water-Method Man
The 158-Pound Marriage
The World According to Garp
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Son of the Circus
The Imaginary Girlfriend
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
A Widow for One Year
My Movie Business
The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay
The Fourth Hand
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound
Until I Find You
Last Night in Twisted River
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Irving, John.
In one person : a novel / John Irving.
p. cm.
1. Domestic fiction. 2. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3559.R8I5 2012
813’.54—dc23 2011039707
ISBN 978-1-4516-6412-6 (print)
ISBN 978-1-4516-6415-7 (eBook)
