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The Water-Method Man

The Water-Method Man

The Water-Method Man - 1990

by Irving, John

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Ballantine Books, 1990. Good mass market paperback, slight wear.. Mass Market Paper Back. Good.
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  • Title The Water-Method Man
  • Author Irving, John
  • Binding
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1990
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 220625-RD61
  • ISBN 9780345367426 / 0345367421
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.82 x 4.2 x 0.96 in (17.32 x 10.67 x 2.44 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Impostors and imposture - Fiction, Men - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

"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

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Her gynecologist recommended him to me.

About the author

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Academy Award nominations.

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