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Cover of The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

✍ Scribed by Irving, John

Book ID
110482047
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
508 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062235183

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✦ Synopsis

First published in 1985 by William Morrow, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

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