Cider house irving

  Author(s): John Irving  Title:      The Cider House Rules  ISBN: 0 552 12724 8  Publisher/place: Black Swan, London  This Edition: Black Swan edition of 1986, 6th printing  Year of Publication: 1990  First Published:  1985 (Jonathan Cape, London)  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  731  Weight: 346g  Condition:   Excellent  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.  

Paperback. English. Publisher: Black Swan. 1986. Good. Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder - a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...

Paperback. English. Publisher: Corgi. 1981. Fair/Good. 'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. 'So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of 'A Widow for One Year' and 'The Cider House Rules,'.

Title: Setting Free The Bears by John Irving, Softcover Book. Author: John Irving. Info: Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Wikipedia Originally published: 1968 Genre: Novel Followed by: The Water-Method Man Format: Paperback. This Edition by Corgi Books 1988. Condition: Good. Price: R 75.00 Inc Vat.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Fantastic Mr Fox - the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world. Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to BANG-BANG-BANG shoot Mr Fox dead. But, just when they think Mr Fox can't possibly escape, he makes a fantastic plan of his own... Listen to FANTASTIC MR FOX and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play - including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits. Features Summary Boggis is a fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider... Author Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator) Publisher Puffin Release date 20160630 Pages 96 ISBN 0-14-136928-0 ISBN 13 978-0-14-136928-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to BANG-BANG-BANG shoot Mr Fox dead. But, just when they think Mr Fox can't possibly escape, he makes a fantastic plan of his own... Listen to FANTASTIC MR FOX and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy sound-effects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits. Features Summary Boggis is a fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper... Author Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator) Publisher Puffin Release date 20160401 Pages 81 ISBN 0-14-136544-7 ISBN 13 978-0-14-136544-2