The Cider House Rules

Paperback, 736 pages

English language

Published Dec. 14, 1986 by Johathan Cape Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-552-14613-5
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (44 reviews)

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 abortar. Homer abandona con ellos el hospital y consigue trabajo como recolector de manzanas junto con unos temporeros negros. En la casa de la sidra donde se aloja conocerá el amor, pero también que las verdaderas normas que rigen nuestra vida sólo puede dictarlas el corazón.

First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving’s sixth novel. Set …

28 editions

2022 #FReadom read 12/20

5 stars

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replacement, but the moral wrestling with the causes and effects of pregnancy, orphans and abortion are no more out-of-date in Irving's novel than in the Dickens and Brontë novels that were its orphans' bedtime stories.

avatar for Ellemir

rated it

4 stars
avatar for rina

rated it

4 stars
avatar for susurros

rated it

3 stars
avatar for seabelis

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Ascapola

rated it

4 stars
avatar for flimflam

rated it

2 stars
avatar for iyamwhoiyam

rated it

4 stars
avatar for hakase

rated it

2 stars
avatar for vlindhol

rated it

5 stars
avatar for sifuCJC

rated it

4 stars
avatar for scully

rated it

4 stars
avatar for phocks@book.dansmonorage.blue

rated it

5 stars
avatar for k_purpose

rated it

5 stars
avatar for jhauge

rated it

5 stars
avatar for j6m8

rated it

5 stars
avatar for jbeimler

rated it

4 stars
avatar for steven.watt

rated it

3 stars
avatar for mattmerk

rated it

5 stars
avatar for wordeater

rated it

3 stars
avatar for MarianneBrix

rated it

4 stars
avatar for ruxpinread

rated it

5 stars
avatar for gadabyte

rated it

5 stars
avatar for acaleyn

rated it

2 stars
avatar for TimmyMac

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Tommyyy

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Jaldert

rated it

4 stars
avatar for ginkgo

rated it

4 stars
avatar for ToadyNerd

rated it

3 stars
avatar for jhaase

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Underbroen

rated it

4 stars
avatar for js

rated it

5 stars
avatar for Anders_S

rated it

3 stars
avatar for balise

rated it

5 stars
avatar for eyolf

rated it

4 stars