Read this in 1987 and I never remember much of the plot of John Irving's books, but I do remember the characters, the settings and the situations-Homer Wells doing the "Lord's work" under Dr. Larch at the St Cloud orphanage, making angels or orphans...
ether-addicted Dr Larch and the novels they read every night: Jane Eyre & David Copperfield. The orphanage, the cider house

now i know i probably won't be reading this book again so is available

decided to make either an orphan or an angel out of it, condom trouble