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|title=In One Person

|author=John Irving

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780857520968

|pages=448

|publisher=Doubleday

|date=May 2012

|website=http://www.john-irving.com

|summary=New England, wrestling, sexual oddities and a visit to Vienna - this could only be John Irving. Sensitively narrated by a bisexual writer looking back on his life, from early sexual confusion to the AIDS virus that hit the US in the 1980s this is superb storytelling about sexual identity and the loneliness of the outsider.

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''In One Person'' is a sensitive story of sexual identity, narrated by a bisexual writer who is now in his later years, recalling not only his own coming to terms with his sexuality and attraction to men, women and transgenders while at school in a New England school, but also his later years and the devastating impact of the AIDS virus in 1980s America. At times the content is quite graphic, but John Irving captures the outsider's feelings beautifully in this tale of secrecy in a confusing world of identity.

An obvious next step is [[Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving|Last Night in Twisted River]] while for more on the whole thorny issue of sexual identity, then [[Annabel by Kathleen Winter]] was short-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize.

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