![]() ![]() But “In One Person” is a thoroughgoing stretch in this direction. Bill Abbott, the earnestly bisexual narrator of his own long erotic history, explains that “the bear movement didn’t begin until the mid-eighties-those big hairy guys, consciously sloppy, rebelling against the chiseled, neat-and-trim men, with their shaved balls and gym bodies.” Even in his early work, Irving treated readers to sexual leaps and gender surprises one fondly remembers Roberta Muldoon, a former Philadelphia Eagles tight end, in “The World According to Garp” (1978). Readers looking for bears-often seen riding motorcycles or being set free from zoos in John Irving’s fiction-will find only a human, subcultural variant of the species in his new novel, “In One Person” (Simon & Schuster). Irving’s new hero loves men, women, and wrestling. ![]()
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