Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag

Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag


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Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag
John Irving
Diogenes Verlag
2000-04
Taschenbuch
774 pages
Edition: 27., Aufl.

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15.03.2009 / Stine Rother
Mein Lieblingsbuch von Irving
Natürlich ist ein Roman von über 800 Seiten nicht jedermanns Sache. Und es sei zugegeben, dass bestimmte Passagen eher ereignisarm verlaufen und sich deshalb beim Lesen ziehen. Die Bewertung mit vollen 5 Sternen steht für mich jedoch außer Frage.
Die Geschichte um den Waisenjungen Homer Wells,... [> more]


28.01.2009 / S. Hubert / Bayern
wirkt lange nach
In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte von Homer Wells erzählt. Ein Waisenjunge im Waisenhaus St.Clouds. Er ist der älteste Junge, da alle Versuche einer Adoption daneben gingen. Der sensible Heimleiter Dr.Wilbur Larch hat Homer besonders ins Herz geschlossen. Er bildet ihn zum Arzt aus und soll überall... [> more]


16.10.2008 / Lesley
Viel Worte um nichts
Ich gratuliere erst einmal allen, die es geschafft haben, dieses Buch zu Ende zu lesen und gestehe, bei Seite 449 kapituliert zu haben.
Dieser Roman erinnert mich an eine Tretmühle, denn der Autor tritt ewig auf einer Stelle, bevor er einen kleinen Schritt vorwärts schafft. Bei besagter Seite... [> more]

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  • General
  • Amerikanische Belletristik
  • Roman, Erzählung
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Taschenbuch / Belletristik/Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
  • Belletristik
  • Belletristik / Romane / Erzählungen
  • Erzählungen
  • Romane
  • Coming of Age
  • Literary


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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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