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About the Book

About the Book

In One Person

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, IN ONE PERSON is a story of unfulfilled love --- tormented, funny and affecting --- and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of IN ONE PERSON, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP.

His most political novel since THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, John Irving’s IN ONE PERSON is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers --- a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, IN ONE PERSON is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”

In One Person
by John Irving

  • Publication Date: May 8, 2012
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN-10: 1451664125
  • ISBN-13: 9781451664126