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THE 158-POUND MARRIAGE is an erotic--and ironic-- love story by the author of the best selling THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. John Irving looks beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance and beyond the theatrics of body contact and love to the morning-after complications. THE 158-POUND MARRIAGE is everything you've always known about sex and were afraid to admit.
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"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 ménage 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
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0671440004
- ISBN 13 9780671440008
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages255
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