The Cider House Rules

a novel

Al hospital St. Cloud´s se acercan muchas parejas o mujeres solas en situaciones desesperadas, dispuestas a abortar o abandonar a un hijo no deseado, que ponen en manos de un médico modélico, el doctor Larch. Éste siente un cariño especial por Homer Wells, su pupilo, al que transmite cuanto sabe de medicina. Homer, sin embargo, no comparte sus criterios sobre el aborto, y cree que necesita crecer fuera del hospicio y conocer mundo. La ocasión se le presenta cuando una joven pareja acomodada hace su aparición con la intención de …

Paperback, 576 pages

English language

Published June 23, 1997 by Ballantine Books.

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ISBN:
978-0-345-41794-7
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OCLC Number:
38002481

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Subjects
  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Literary
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Reviews

2022 #FReadom read 12/20

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replacement, but the moral wrestling with the causes and effects of pregnancy, orphans and abortion are no more out-of-date in Irving's novel than in the Dickens and Brontë novels that were its orphans' bedtime stories.