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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
June 7, 2016
Pages
320
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781451664171
ISBN-10
1451664176
Dimensions
0 by 5.50 by 8.43 in.
Original list price
$17.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
City on Fire | The Heart Goes Last | In One Person | The Cider House Rules | The World According to Garp | Until I Find You | A Prayer for Owen Meany | The Imaginary Girlfriend | The Imaginary Girlfriend | Last Night in Twisted River
City on Fire | The Heart Goes Last | In One Person | The Cider House Rules | The World According to Garp | Until I Find You | A Prayer for Owen Meany | The Imaginary Girlfriend | The Imaginary Girlfriend | Last Night in Twisted River
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diegoâa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexicoâhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees whatâs comingâspecifically, her own future and her brotherâs. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesnât know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.
Lupe doesnât know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the futureâespecially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow olderâmost of all, in what we remember and what we dreamâwe live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the pastâin Mexicoâcollides with his future.
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diegoâa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexicoâhas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees whatâs comingâspecifically, her own future and her brotherâs. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesnât know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.
Lupe doesnât know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the futureâespecially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow olderâmost of all, in what we remember and what we dreamâwe live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the pastâin Mexicoâcollides with his future.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (November 4, 2015)
9781410484482 | details & prices | 863 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.75 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $33.99
from Simon & Schuster (November 3, 2015)
9781451664164 | details & prices | 460 pages | 7.25 × 10.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $28.00
from Transworld Pub (January 14, 2015)
9780857521149 | details & prices | 768 pages | List price $33.35
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Simon & Schuster (June 7, 2016)
9781451664171 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $17.00
About: John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
About: John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
from Simon & Schuster (November 3, 2015)
9781501121340 | details & prices | List price $18.00
With Rick Moody |
from Warner Books Inc (November 1, 1997); titled "Ice Storm"
9780446785679 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $10.99
This edition also contains The Ice Storm
This edition also contains The Ice Storm
CD/Spoken Word
With Armando Dura¡n (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (November 3, 2015)
9781442384491 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.00 × 2.00 in. | 1.08 lbs | List price $49.99
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