![]() ![]() ”Not all storytelling is what it’s cracked up to be.”Įxcept, of course, when it comes to Irving, a masterful storyteller who has mesmerized readers since 1968’s Setting Free the Bears. ”I don’t know what I think of fiction,” Lupe says, in one of her sardonic asides. Peppered with John Irving’s trademark quirky characters - including the wiliest mother-daughter team since the Sigourney Weaver-Jennifer Love Hewitt dynamic duo of 2001’s Heartbreakers - his 14th novel cannily covers such topics as books, reading and imagination. Inside the Writing Life Where Past and Future Meet: A Conversation with John Irving '61Ī picaresque tale that begins at a Mexican dump just before Juan Diego and his sister, the mind-reading Lupe, find refuge with a circus, Avenue of Mysteries also follows the adult Juan Diego on a peripatetic visit to the Philippines, where he’s gone to fulfill a childhood pledge. ![]()
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