In One Person

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.
Bill ...

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’.