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The Water-Method Man

By John Irving

The Water-Method Man Contemporary literature

The Water-Method Man

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"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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
1997-06-23
Publication Date:
1997-06-23
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
034541800X
ISBN13:
9780345418005
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
358 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
16 cm

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