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"Supple and energetic as a stylist, Mr. Irving also knows just how to create in the reader's mind a vivid impression of an existing world *and just how to populate it."
*The New York Times Book Review
"CANDID . . . COLORFUL . . . Those who have followed John Irving's writing career will delight in his newest, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed. . . . Readers will leave this book feeling as if they have had a terrific conversation with Irving about why he writes and how he goes about it."
*USA Today
"[THIS] NEWEST BOOK IS A FIRST FOR IRVING: a collection of memoirs, short fiction, and essays. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed features tributes to Dickens and Günter Grass, whose novels percolate with a political and moral courage Irving admires. It also includes six short stories, a form Irving doesn't claim as his own. Reminiscences round out the collection, from his caustic recollections of an awkward dinner with former President Reagan to the title piece, in which the death of his town's garbage collector symbolically sparked the teenage Irving's desire to write."
*Minneapolis Star Tribune
"THESE PIECES ARE WORTH SAVING AND SAVORING. . . . Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is a welcome oasis on the long desert passage leading to John Irving's next novel."
*The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
"ENGAGINGLY CANDID . . . The essays on himself and other writers make the book valuable, for they tell us a great deal about Irving's views of fiction, much in the public eye since the success of Garp in 1978."
*Newsday
"A rich, wonderful and diverse look into the creative mind of one of America's most imaginative and passionate novelists. . . . Irving again proves he has enough imagination for 10 writers."
*The Denver Post
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is Irving's only collection of "short work." The memoir The Imaginary Girlfriend covers the same ground as most of his novels but is still must read for Irving fans. The title memoir is also fantastic, though I have my doubts about how factual it is. His memoir about having dinner with President Reagan is hilarious. Seller Inventory # 003064
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Seller Inventory # 42681786-75
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184pp. First published 1993; this copy, stated: "This edition published 1995" with no number line or printings cited. Black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering and design elements on spine. Light yellow dustwrapper not price-clipped ([BPS] 9.95 net), with patterned red lines connecting vertical two-tone discs in background for lighter yellow author name and title box at middle front cover; slight rubbing wear at top two corners and in thin line across top spine end, only hint of ruffling across top edges due to dw riding too high. Binding tight, corners sharp, No rubbing wear (dw did its job), No previous owner names. Clean text. Seller Inventory # 001279