Trying to Save Piggy Sneed - John Irving

Category: Anthology, Autobiography & Biographies, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Literary Criticism Memoir Short Story Collection

Written by John Irving
Read by Joe Barrett
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs.

The middle section of the book is fiction. Since the publication of his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968, John Irving has written 12 more novels but only half a dozen stories that he considers finished: they are all published here, including “Interiors” which won the O. Henry Award.

In the third and final section are three essays of appreciation: one on Günter Grass, two on Charles Dickens.

Author’s Notes provide some perspective on the circumstances surrounding the writing of each piece.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is both as moving and as mischievous as readers would expect from the author of The World According to Garp. And Mr. Irving’s concise autobiography, The Imaginary Girlfriend, is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living.

April 20 2014
7 hrs and 59 mins