New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller set in rural Maine. An orphan raised in an unusual orphanage must confront impossible choices about love, morality, and what it means to do good in a complicated world. Irving’s unforgettable novel—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film—is storytelling at its finest.
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New York Times Bestseller • John Irving’s unforgettable novel about love, morality, and what it means to be of use—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film starring Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, and Charlize Theron.
“Good night—you princes of Maine, you kings of New England!”
Set against the rugged landscape of rural Maine, The Cider House Rules follows Homer Wells, an orphan raised under the complicated care of Dr. Wilbur Larch. The good doctor delivers babies into the world while also performing illegal abortions—a practice he hopes Homer will one day continue. But Homer refuses, setting in motion a journey that will test everything he believes about right and wrong.
When Homer leaves the orphanage for an apple orchard owned by a young couple seeking Dr. Larch’s services, he discovers a world of possibility—and complication. Working among the apple pickers, falling in love, navigating desire and duty, Homer must eventually confront the very choices he once refused to make.
Irving weaves a story that’s both sweeping and intimate, exploring the nature of found family, the weight of moral decisions, and the unpredictable paths our lives take. The New York Times Book Review praised it as “witty, tenderhearted, fervent . . . an example, now rare, of the courage of imaginative ardor.”
This is storytelling at its finest—rich with humanity, impossible to put down, and perfect for readers who love literary fiction that lingers long after the last page.
witty, tenderhearted, fervent . . . an example, now rare, of the courage of imaginative ardor.
An astounding book . . . As in all of Irving's fiction, the wondrous and the ridiculous are combined with the ordinary and the expected to create a world that seems at once real and imagined, possible and preposterous.
Irving's most political, most contemporary novel . . . The Cider House Rules is ambitious, in ways both good and bad, and often wildly funny.
Difficult to define, impossible to resist . . . [Irving's] instinct for the comic and the terrifying is unmatched.
Marvelous . . . a novel that leaves us in awe of the author's talent and of his ability to explore deeply felt moral dilemmas without becoming moralistic.
Superb . . . The Cider House Rules is Irving's most didactic, yet his most moving novel. . . . You cannot read it without being moved, provoked and entertained.
A sprawling, Dickensian novel . . . Irving's most engrossing book.
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| Dimensions | 5.22 × 1.30 × 8.00 in |
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