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The Rules of the Cider House is a fascinating, multifaceted, intimate, tragic, and sometimes humorous book by one of the best "big story" tellers in contemporary American literature. The novel is set in a half-forgotten orphanage on the coast of Maine, and its main theme is the established rules, written or not: whether a real person should play by them or whether they should immediately reject them and create new, more humane ones of their own. But the list of topics explored by the author is much wider: war and betrayal, the existence of the soul and violence against women, incest and death, the right to act and one's own destiny. The author avoids moralising, and his characters - the orphan Homer Krynytsia and the head of the Holy Cloud orphanage Wilbur Modryna, whom the reader will definitely like, are real "one hundred per cent rule-breakers."

In 1999, The Cider House Rules was adapted into a film by director Lasse Hallström, and John Irving won an Oscar for his screenplay for this drama-filled film.