The Cider House Rules (Black Swan)

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Paperback, 731 pages

Published July 1, 1986 by Black Swan.

ISBN:
978-0-552-99204-6
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5 stars (1 review)

Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.

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reviewed The Cider House Rules by John Irving

2022 #FReadom read 12/20

5 stars

John Irving's The Cider House Rules was the 12th book in my 2022 #FReadom project to read books removed or threatened in Texas libraries and schools. After it appeared on the Krause list, North East ISD recommended its removal in favor of something more "updated."

I'll reserve judgment until I've read the proposed replacement, but the moral wrestling with the causes and effects of pregnancy, orphans and abortion are no more out-of-date in Irving's novel than in the Dickens and Brontë novels that were its orphans' bedtime stories.

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  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction