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'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'
Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...
Note biographique
John Irving
Détails
| Code EAN : | 9780552992046 |
| Editeur : | Transworld Publ. Ltd UK-Transworld Publ. Ltd UK |
| Date de publication : | 01-07-1986 |
| Format : | Livre de poche |
| Langue(s) : | anglais |
| Hauteur : | 195 mm |
| Largeur : | 126 mm |
| Epaisseur : | 40 mm |
| Poids : | 502 gr |
| Stock : | En rupture de stock |
| Nombre de pages : | 703 |
| Mots clés : | elena ferrante; anne tyler; donna tartt; the goldfinch; the help; tree of life; nick hornby; remains of the day; never let me go kazuo ishiguro; the secret life of bees; let it go; a tree grows in brooklyn; still alice; the reader; the color purple; oryx and crake; colm toibin; testament of youth; philip roth; the danish girl; a prayer for owen meany; anne enright; american pastoral; irish authors; books my brilliant friend; bernhard schlink; we will never let you down; contemporary fiction; literary fiction; family; coming of age; relationships; fiction |