Charlene C. (mccoffield) reviewed Boston Mercy and the Pension Grillparzer/from the World According to Garp/2 Audio Cassettes on + 76 more book reviews
Audio Book approx. 2 hours on 2 cassettes Read by the Author
From the back cover:
JOHN IRVING reads from his own work
The first section of The World According to Garp, Boston Mercy tells the explicit tale of Garps eccentric parentage and conception of Nurse Jenny Fields and the unconscious, fatally wounded Technical Sergeant Garp.
The Pension Grillparzer is quintessential Irving the story-within-a-story that becomes the heros masterpiece in The World According to Garp. Like the novel as a whole, it tells a vivid and engaging tale. The Grillparzer Hotel, inhabited by odd circus performers, including a bear and a frighteningly accurate teller of dreams, wants a better rating to attract more tourists and thus must undergo the scrutiny of a family of inspectors for the Austrian Tourist Bureau.
This valuable recording features [Irvings] own voice reading his selections from GARP, lending both immediacy and perspective to our understanding of this richly textured work.
From the back cover:
JOHN IRVING reads from his own work
The first section of The World According to Garp, Boston Mercy tells the explicit tale of Garps eccentric parentage and conception of Nurse Jenny Fields and the unconscious, fatally wounded Technical Sergeant Garp.
The Pension Grillparzer is quintessential Irving the story-within-a-story that becomes the heros masterpiece in The World According to Garp. Like the novel as a whole, it tells a vivid and engaging tale. The Grillparzer Hotel, inhabited by odd circus performers, including a bear and a frighteningly accurate teller of dreams, wants a better rating to attract more tourists and thus must undergo the scrutiny of a family of inspectors for the Austrian Tourist Bureau.
This valuable recording features [Irvings] own voice reading his selections from GARP, lending both immediacy and perspective to our understanding of this richly textured work.
