It's Always the Uiet Ones
His novels are epic, explicit — and shapedIT’S by his peculiar ALWAYS THE childhood. John Irving talks to Ariel Leve about his lost father, being seduced UIET ONES at 11, and getting a second stab By the age of 23, Norah Jones was the world’s biggest-selling jazz singer — at life. Portraits: Jonathan but struggled to drop her guard and accept her fame. Has she recovered enough Torgovnik now to let people in? By Ariel Leve. Photographs by Todd Selby he hotel lobby on Manhattan’s Jones is relieved to be ignored. She has urban landscape. She’s lived in the eforeLower the East journey Side is begins, buzzing the with never been an attention-seeker. She is neighbourhood for many years, but is T detailsactivity. arrive. There There are effeminate is a stunning in an understated way; even considering a move out of Manhattan, B notemen from in his sunglasses assistant: and “John ski sayshats, it bored, is with professionally-applied make-up, her across the East River to Brooklyn. There’s an open boatlong-legged ride, so you models should in bring knee-high rain gear, boots big brown eyes, dark wavy hair and a sense that she too is evolving after her just in case.”punching And advice: BlackBerrys request a and,specific outside driver the lustrous skin allows her the freedom to breakthrough success eight years ago. who knows theglass way doors, from a Toronto posse of airport paparazzi. to the They ghost past the cameras. Several times during our time together boat basin inare Pointe waiting Au Baril,for someone Ontario.
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