In One Person
Author: John Irving
His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade’ (Vanity Fair).Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary AwardA New York Times bestselling 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 nar….Read More
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