Rating: 3.75* of five The Book Report: The book description says:A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main chara...
In One Person had many aspects are really liked. The way John Irving deals with all the different sexual tendencies is just amazing. He also treats AIDS in a wonderful way. My problem with this book was however - as has been with most of his recent ones - that John Irving always writes about a perso...
There is a scene near the end of John Irving’s latest novel, In One Person,in which a character who is a writer is confronted:…I’ve read all your books and I know what you do—I mean, in your writing. You make all these sexual extremes seem normal—that is what you do. Like Gee, that girl, or whatever...
It should be noted, before I begin, that this is the first John Irving novel I've read. I feel a bit ashamed to admit this but perhaps I wasn't meant to read a John Irving novel until now. Either way. From what I've gathered from other reviews on the book, faithful Irving fans have been a bit disapp...
When I think of John Irving, I think mostly of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp. This book had many similar elements to both of those books. I was afraid at first that perhaps Irving was merely recycling bits and pieces of these two stories to make a new novel and almost sto...
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