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158-Pound Marriage by John Irving (1990, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-10034536743X
ISBN-139780345367433
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038258810
Product Key Features
Book Title158-lb. Marriage
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicPsychological, Sagas, Family Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Irving
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight4.6 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN74-008787
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage ofThe World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . .The 158-Pound Marriageis as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft." -Terrence Des Pres "Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." -The Washington Post From the Trade Paperback edition., "One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp , is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . . The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft." Terrence Des Pres "Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." The Washington Post From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Synopsis"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." --The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp ; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive. "One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp , is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . . The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft." --Terrence Des Pres
LC Classification NumberPS3559.R8A246 1990
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