Trying To Save Piggy Sneed
Arcade Publishing, 1996. Stated First Edition, First Printing, 1996 Arcade Publishing.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneedcontains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs--two of which (including an account of Mr Irving's dinner with President Reagan at the White House) are new to American readers The newest and longest of the memoirs, "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is the core of this collectionThe middle section of the book is fiction In 28 years, John Irving has written eight novels--but only a half-dozen short stories he considers "finished;" they are all published here In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on G??nter Grass, two on Charles DickensTo each of the 12 pieces, which cover 30 years of writing, Mr Irving has contributed his Author's Notes These notes provide some perspective on the circumstances surrounding the writing of each piece--for example, an election-year diary of the Bush-Clinton campaigns accompanies Mr Irving's memoirs of his dinner with Ronald Reagan; and the notes to one of Irving's short stories explain that the story was presented and sold to Playboyas the work of a womanTrying to Save Piggy Sneedis both as moving and as mischievous as readers would expect from the author of The World According to Garp,The Cider House Rules,A Prayer for Owen Meany,and A Son of the Circus And Mr Irving's concise autobiography, "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living
. Near Fine / near mint. Item #biblio533ISBN: 1559703237
Price: $75.00