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'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.

Wanneer een zwarte vrouw rond 1874 onderdak verleent aan een onbekende jonge vrouw, verandert haar leven en dat van anderen door herinneringen die soms tegenstrijdig zijn met de werkelijkheid.

Wanneer een zwarte vrouw rond 1874 onderdak verleent aan een onbekende jonge vrouw, verandert haar leven en dat van anderen door herinneringen die soms tegenstrijdig zijn met de werkelijkheid.

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer, previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp, and now given its first independent airing.

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Een door blanken opgevoed zwart model wordt verliefd op een arme neger.

"Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. In fear of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black notebook addresses her problems as a writer, the red her political life; the yellow her relationships and emotions; and the blue becomes a diary for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the Golden Notebook - which is the key to her recovery and renaissance. Bold and illuminating, fusing sex politics, madness and motherhood, The golden notebook is at once a wry and perceptive portrait of the intellectual and moral climate of the 1950s - a society on the brink of feminism - and a powerful and revealing account of a woman searching for her own personal and political identity."