Genre: | Literature |
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Language : | English |
Published: | January 01, 1997 |
Edition: | 9th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780552996808 |
ISBN10: | 0552996807 |
Pages: | 160 |
Dimensions: | 5.0 x 7.8 x 0.51 inches |
Weight: | 167.26 g |
John Irving began writing and wrestling when he was fourteen. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, he was certified as a referee for twenty-four and he coached the sport until he was forty-seven. His thirty-three years in wrestling are three times those he spent as a student and a teacher of Creative Writing; yet his concise autobiography details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling - from the days when Irving was a beginner at both pursuits until his fourth wrestling-related surgery at the age of fifty-three.
The Imaginary Girlfriend is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living.