Advance praise for John Irving's In One Person:
��his tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny��t is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel.�The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the '80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients' deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the�other�losses��amely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. In One Person�is the novel that for me will define that era.�A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious.�It is America and American writing, both at their very best.����braham Verghese,�author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country
��I>In One Person is a novel that makes you proud to be human. It is a book that not only accepts but also loves our differences. From the beginning of his career, Irving has always cherished our peculiarities��n a fierce, not a saccharine, way. Now he has extended his sympathies��nd ours��till further into areas that even the misfits eschew. Anthropologists say that the interstitial��hatever lies between two familiar opposites��s�usually declared either taboo or sacred. John Irving in this magnificent novel��is best and most passionate since The World According to Garp��as sacralized what lies between polarizing genders and orientations. And have I mentioned it is also a gripping page-turner and a beautifully constructed work of art?��I>��dmund White, author of City Boy and�Genet: A Biography
