The Water-Method Man

John Irving

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ISBN 10: 0394473329 ISBN 13: 9780394473321

Published by Random House, New York, 1972

Language: English

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New York: Random House, (1972). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 365 pp. Original half navy cloth over yellow paper-covered boards, stamped in blue, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Moderate edge wear with wrinkling - particular to spine, handling smudges and surface scratches . Tiny vertical tear to top front panel edge. Light curling to spine ends. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm.Light forward lean. Light wear to edges. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked.

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?In a 1972 review, Kirkus acknowledged the book?s "tremendous comic drive." Time greeted the novel with enthusiasm: "Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry." Five of his novels have been adapted into films (Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow). Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.?.

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Title: The Water-Method Man
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication Date: 1972
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394473329
ISBN 13: 9780394473321
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 450 grams

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The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first....
"Three or four times as funny as most novels."
THE NEW YORKER

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