# Trying To Save Piggy Sneed

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- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5299-573-3
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1994-03-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the past twenty years, inlcuding The Pension Grillparzer , previously only to be found inside The World According to Garp , and now given its first independent airing.