![]() ![]() Whose fiction lacks intellectual and emotional complexity. ![]() He is pigeonholed, rather, as an entertaining writer, inclined toward cuteness and sentimentality, Is patent yet my sense is that he has never quite been taken seriously by readers who take seriously Pynchon or Roth, DeLillo or Morrison. His exhibited mastery of comic action sequences is undeniable the most brilliant, perhaps, occurs in ''A Prayerįor Owen Meany'' when an obnoxious headmaster attempts, with disastrous consequences, to steer down the marble stairs of the Great Hall of Gravesend Academy a Volkswagen cleverly placed there by students. Over the past two decades he has energetically produced five longish novels (this new one is the fifth) filled with inventive, exuberant, often farcical, sometimes tiresome, knockabout performances that are also painstakingly researched,įilled with lore on the Bath shipyards, or abortion, or the physiology and habits of achondroplastic dwarfs. ![]() Ver since ''The World According to Garp'' (1978), John Irving's work has attracted a huge readership, not only in this country but internationally.
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