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MY MOVIE BUSINESS
By: John Irving

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Academy Award-Winning film "The Cider House Rules"

Ballantine Books
October 2000
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Featuring: John Irving
192 pages
ISBN: 0345441303
EAN: 9780345441300
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

John Irving’s memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist’s grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving’s incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Busi-ness focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen—for four different directors.

Mr. Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, into a movie; about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire; about his slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production.

Not least, and in addition to its qualities as a memoir—anecdotal, comic, affectionate, and candid—My Movie Business is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay.

The photographs in My Movie Business were taken by Stephen Vaughan, the still photogra-pher on the set of The Cider House Rules—a Miramax production directed by Lasse Hallstrˆm, with Michael Caine in the role of Dr. Larch. Concurrently with the November 1999 release of the film, Talk Miramax Books will publish John Irving’s screenplay.