John Irving, "The Men of Her Life." A Novel

An undisputed classic of modern Western literature and one of its undisputed leaders, Irving plunges the reader into a mirrored labyrinth of reflections: the fears of the children's books of the once-popular writer Ted Cole suddenly take on a concrete form, and a fairytale human mole transforms into a real-life serial killer, so that nearly forty years later, Ruth Cole, the writer's daughter and also a writer, witnesses his brutal crime while gathering material for a novel. But above all, Irving's novel is about love. An atmosphere of intense sensuality, a love without boundaries or limitations, fills its pages with a magnetic force, transforming the reader into a participant in a magical spectacle.
Translation from English by G. Krylov