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GUARDIAN LIVE: Jeanette Winterson "In Conversation" with John Irving - SOLD OUT

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Dates:1 February 2016
Times:18:30 - 20:00
What is it:Literature Live
Organiser:Martin Harris Centre
How much:£10 / £8
Who is it for:University staff, General public
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  • In group "(ALC) Centre for New Writing"
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PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT John Irving is one of America’s greatest living novelists. He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel The World According to Garp , received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story Interior Space and in 2000 won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules.

Reviewing John Irving’s twelfth novel In One Person, which won a Lambda Award in 2013, Jeanette Winterson noted that: “Reading Irving, it seems to me that what he is saying about desire outside of the missionary position – (a psychic attitude, not a physical preference) – is never an apology, nor an explanation. Irving’s new novel, his fourteenth, Avenue of Mysteries, was described in the New York Times as “thoroughly modern, accessibly brainy, hilariously eccentric and beautifully human.” He will read from and discuss his new novel with Jeanette Winterson, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, who recently published The Gap of Time.

PLEASE NOTE: this event will take place at The Whitworth Art Gallery

This event is produced in association with Guardian Live, a programme of debates, keynote speeches and interview. Please visit the Guardian Live website for more information about forthcoming Guardian Live events: http://theguardian.com/guardianlive

To book please visit http://tinyurl.com/njn5ga5 or phone the Martin Harris Centre Box Office.

Price: £10 / £8

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