Please refer to the last photo on this page for more details. Later printing dust jackets are however about an eight of an inch shorter than the first printing jacket.

The 0478 on the bottom right of the dust jacket back is sometimes mentioned as a first edition point, but it is found on later printing jackets as well. The back of the dust jacket has a photo of the author above a short bio in the center, ISBN:0-4 on the bottom left, and 0478 on the bottom right. The dust jacket carries a price of $10.95 on the front flap. Boards are gold with navy cloth spine and gold lettering. Pages: 437 FIRST EDITION is stated below the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. John Irving has three children and lives in Vermont and Toronto.First Edition Points and Criteria for The World According to Garp Avenue of Mysteries is John Irving's fourteenth novel. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year. Tod Williams wrote and directed The Door in the Floor, the 2004 film adapted from Mr. In 2000, Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a Lasse Hallström film with seven Academy Award nominations. (He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, until he was thirty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven). Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called 'an American classic' is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), the portrayal of an enduring friendship at that time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States. Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five foreign languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller it also became a George Roy Hill film. 'Yount was the first person to point out that anything I did except writing was going to be vaguely unsatisfying.' Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child.

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