# In One Person

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- Book: [In One Person](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/in-one-person) ([In One Person.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/in-one-person.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-844-2
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2013-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love — tormented, funny, and affecting — and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a ‘sexual suspect’, a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of ‘terminal cases’ , The World According to Garp . His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany , John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself ‘worthwhile’.