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The Water-Method Man

The Water-Method Man

Irving, John

Paperback

Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 034541800X
ISBN13: 9780345418005
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jun 23 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
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

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