The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules"The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving's novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free spirited." The Houston Post First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether

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