Der dreizehnte Roman von John Irving wird erst der zweite sein, der in der ersten Person erzählt ist. Es dreht sich um einen bisexuellen Mann um die sechzig, der auf sein Leben in den Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahren zurückschaut. Ein sehr intimes, tolerantes und leidenschaftliches Buch, das den Leser laut Kritikerstimme stolz macht, ein Mensch zu sein.
"This tender exploration of nascent desire, of love and loss, manages to be sweeping, brilliant, political, provocative, tragic, and funny - it is precisely the kind of astonishing alchemy we associate with a John Irving novel. The unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in the '80s was the defining moment for me as a physician. With my patients' deaths, almost always occurring in the prime of life, I would find myself cataloging the other losses - namely, what these people might have offered society had they lived the full measure of their days: their art, their literature, the children they might have raised. In One Person is the novel that for me will define that era. A profound truth is arrived at in these pages. It is Irving at his most daring, at his most ambitious. It is America and American writing, both at their very best."
- Abraham Verghese
- Abraham Verghese