'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'

Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Ma...

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 addi...

Klassicheskaya saga o lyubvi i vybore ot blistatel'nogo Dzhona Irvinga, avtora takih mirovyh bestsellerov, kak "e;Mir glazami Garpa i "e;Otel' N'yu-Gehmpshir, "e;Pravila vinodelov i "e;Syn cirka, "e;Molitva ob Ouehne Mini i "e;Muzhchiny ne ee zhizni. Itak, molodoj doktor prie...

'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.'

Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As t...