![]() ![]() He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him like a son. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage. ![]() Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood trying to be "of use" as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. The story relates his early life at Larch's orphanage in Maine and follows Homer as he eventually leaves the nest and comes of age in the world. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortionist. The story, set in the pre– and post–World War II era, is about a young man, Homer Wells, growing up under the guidance of Dr. ![]() Copyright 1985 William Morrow and Company publishers, New York hardbound very good condition with unmarked pages except for previous owner's initials inside front dust jacket very good.Ī novel by American writer John Irving, a Bildungsroman, which was later adapted into a film (1999) and a stage play by Peter Parnell. ![]()
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