The Cider House Rules by John Irving - 1985

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Small closed tear to bottom left corner of spine. Tape remnants along outside edge of flaps. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. Separation at top of spine/textblock. Light foxing to textblock head and foredge, primarily head. Tape remnants to paste-downs corresponding to dust jacket flaps. Lean to spine. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of John Irving's coming-of-age tale, The Cider House Rules, his 6th novel, and the basis for the 1999 film of the same name. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing published by Willilam Morrow in 1985.

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" 'The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving's novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited.'—The Houston Post

First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch—saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

Praise for The Cider House Rules:

'[Irving] is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving's own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness.'—The Philadelphia Inquirer

'Superb in scope and originality, a novel as good as one could hope to find from any author, anywhere, anytime. Engrossing, moving, thoroughly satisfying.'—Joseph Heller

'An old-fashioned, big-hearted novel . . . with its epic yearning caught in the nineteenth century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain.'—Boston Sunday Globe"

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John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of The Cider House Rules.

Five of his novels have been adapted into films (Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow). Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Random House publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.