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In One Person

By: John Irving
Narrated by: John Benjamin Hickey
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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 the novel, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases", The World According to Garp.

His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers, a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile".

©2012 John Irving (P)2012 Random House AudioGo Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Tear-jerking
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Meandering story about a bisexual man's life. Overly weighted with descriptions of sex acts, desires and genitalia. Only listenable due to Irving's undeniable writing talent, characterisations and delightful obsession with minutiae.

Not Irving's best

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