{"product_id":"irving-john-irving-j-the-water-method-man-9780345367426","title":"Irving, J: The Water-Method Man","description":"\"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.\"-Los Angeles Times Fred \"Bogus\" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery. Trumper is determined to change. There's only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . . Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumper's tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irving's trademark. \"Three or four times as funny as most novels.\"-The New Yorker Praise for The Water-Method Man \"Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly-something close to joyful malice-perpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in [John] Irving's fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irving's multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of The World According to Garp, but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method Man [which is Garp's predecessor by six years].\"-Terrence Des Pres \"Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.\"-Time","brand":"Random House LLC US","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53189798134102,"sku":"9780345367426-G","price":4.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780345367426_1.jpg?v=1777909327","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/irving-john-irving-j-the-water-method-man-9780345367426","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}