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In One Person
In One Person
Author: John Irving
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of "In One Person", tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "se...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780857520975
ISBN-10: 0857520970
Publication Date: 5/1/2012
Pages: 768
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Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 8
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As always, Irving writes a good one, but this wasn't my favorite of his. The protagonist had very strong relationships with two characters who end up leaving the narrative partway through the book, to its detriment, I felt. After they leave it seems as though the book moves on toward a conclusion that it never quite reaches, leaving the ending unsatisfying. That said, if you've read Irving before and enjoyed his writing, I'd recommend this one.
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