Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Irving
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Memoirs; essays; short stories
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays
- Subjects: Literature, Writing, Books, Novelists, Creative process, Reading, Mental retardation, Coaching or coaches, Wrestling
Published within two years after John Irving’s eighth novel, A Son of the Circus (1994), Trying to Save Piggy Sneed assembles bits and pieces from Irving’s literary career, together with “end pieces” appended to each excerpt as the collection was assembled for publication. Divided into three sections, “Memoirs,” “Fiction,” and “Homage,” the collection opens with the short title piece, in which Irving reflects perceptively on the interweaving of truth and fiction as it relates to the writer’s art and craft. “Being a writer,” he observes, “is a...
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