John Irving Audio Books

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen, the inspiration for the movie "Simon Birch," is Irving's most-heartbreaking character.

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own....

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident...

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear.

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling.

In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences....

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving's dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House.