Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker

Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker


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Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker
John Irving
Diogenes Verlag
1992
Taschenbuch
486 pages
Edition: 19., Aufl.

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16.06.2008 / J. Brönstrup / Berlin
Irving, der meister seiner Klasse
Es ist ein Irving wie er im Buche steht: Wien, Main, Tripper, Literatur, Nutten etc. Vorallem aber ein "echter Irving" weil es wenig tiefsinnig zugeht. Irving ist ein Geschichtenerzähler: Er erschafft Situationen, er kreiert Personen und er spielt mit Wörter, auf eine Weise die gleichzeitig... [> more]


26.11.2007 / Tom Lawyer
Irvings zweites Werk überzeugt
"Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker" ist ein Buch, das noch nicht an die Meisterwerke von John Irving heranreicht, aber durchaus einen echten Irving abgibt: skurril und voller Überraschungen. Im Vergleich zu etwa "Owen Meany" ist der Wassertrinker allerdings mehr oder weniger lei... [> more]


07.01.2007 / Markus Gander
Ihr Gynäkologe hatte ihn mir empfohlen...
...so beginnt der möglicherweise beste Roman von John Irving. Die Geschichte ist wild, chaotisch und es kommt eine Menge Wien darin vor - was will man mehr. John Irving at his very best.

The book "Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker" belongs to the following genres:


  • TB/Belletristik/Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
  • Belletristik
  • Erzählungen
  • Romane
  • Amerikanische Belletristik
  • Roman, Erzählung


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    About John Irving


    John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

    Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire where Irving grew up as the son of an Exeter faculty member, Colin F.N. Irving (1941), and nephew of another, H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929). (Both Irving and Bissell, and other members of the Exeter community, appear somewhat disguised in many of his novels.)

    Irving was in the Exeter wrestling program both as a wrestler and as an assistant coach, and w...
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