# The Imaginary Girlfriend

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- Libro: [The Imaginary Girlfriend](https://www.archivodelibros.es/john-irving/en/the-imaginary-girlfriend) ([The Imaginary Girlfriend.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/john-irving/en/the-imaginary-girlfriend.md))
- Autores: [John Irving](https://www.archivodelibros.es/john-irving)
- Editorial: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5299-680-8
- Páginas: 160
- Publicación: 1997-03-01
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. Moreover, this candid memoir portrays a father's dedication to his children: Irving coached his sons Colin and Brendan to New England championship titles - a championship that, as a competitor, he himself was denied. John Irving began writing and wrestling when he was fourteen. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, he was certified as a referee for twenty-four and he coached the sport until he was forty-seven. His thirty-three years in wrestling are three times those he spent as a student and a teacher of Creative Writing; yet his concise autobiography details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling - from the days when Irving was a beginner at both pursuits until his fourth wrestling-related surgery at the age of fifty-three. The Imaginary Girlfriend is both a work of the utmost literary accomplishment and a paradigm for living.