John Irving Quote
I’m not a fortune-teller! Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn’t translate this. The woman you want is Soledad, Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. What woman? I don’t want a woman! the new missionary cried; he’d imagined that Dr. Vargas had misunderstood what a vow of celibacy entailed. Not a woman for you, Mr. Celibacy, Vargas said. I mean the woman you need to talk to, on behalf of the kids. Soledad is the woman who looks after the kids at the circus—she’s the lion tamer’s wife.
John Irving
I’m not a fortune-teller! Lupe said, but Juan Diego didn’t translate this. The woman you want is Soledad, Vargas said to Edward Bonshaw. What woman? I don’t want a woman! the new missionary cried; he’d imagined that Dr. Vargas had misunderstood what a vow of celibacy entailed. Not a woman for you, Mr. Celibacy, Vargas said. I mean the woman you need to talk to, on behalf of the kids. Soledad is the woman who looks after the kids at the circus—she’s the lion tamer’s wife.
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About John Irving
Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of his fourth novel The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 for his script of the film adaptation of The Cider House Rules.
Five of his novels have been fully or partially adapted into the films The World According to Garp (1982), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Simon Birch (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), and The Door in the Floor (2004). Several of Irving's books and short stories have been set in and around New England, in fictional towns resembling Exeter, New Hampshire.