A treat for John Irving addicts, and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated.
In his spirited opening piece, Irving explains how he became a writer: “A fiction writer’s memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always imagine a better detail than the one we can remember. The correct detail is rarely exactly what happened; the most truthful detail is what could have happened, or what should have.”
There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years. The collection ends with a homage to Charles Dickens.
- ISBN10 0552142026
- ISBN13 9780552142021
- Publish Date 3 March 1994 (first published 25 March 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Corgi
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English