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John Irving: In One Person [2013] paperback ZART despair and paranoia to whichA compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love tormented, funny, and affecting and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases', The World According to Garp. His