The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. -- Boston Sunday Globe. with its epic yearning caught in the nineteenth century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain. . . --Joseph Heller An old-fashioned, big-hearted novel .
Engrossing, moving, thoroughly satisfying. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer Superb in scope and originality, a novel as good as one could hope to find from any author, anywhere, anytime.
At the base of Irving\'s own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness.
Praise for The Cider House Rules Irving] is among the very best storytellers at work today.
Larch\'s favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.
This is also the story of Dr.
Cloud\'s, ether addict and abortionist.
Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St.
The novel tells the story of Dr.
The characters in John Irving\'s novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited.-- The Houston Post First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. . . .
The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for
