John Irving (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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John Irving is best known for his long fiction. Some of his few published short stories found their way into his novels, attributed to one or another of the novel’s main characters. The rest of the stories, some originally published in magazines, were collected in the volume Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996), a miscellany that also includes occasional essays and fragments of autobiography.
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When The World According to Garp became a best-seller in 1978, prompting the reissue of his three previous novels, Irving...
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