The 158-Pound Marriage
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:22nd Feb '80
Should be back in stock very soon
A modern classic from the international bestseller John Irving.
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party.
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Utchka and Severin are rather taken with one another, and, conveniently, their spouses appear to be similarly smitten.A bizarre ménage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires, and what starts out as a bit of fun is soon subject to the darker machinations of obsession,..
The most important American humorist to appear in the last ten years -- Kurt Vonnegut
Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world really is the world according to everyone * Time *
John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J.D.Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft. This superbly original book is one to be read and remembered * The Times *
ISBN: 9780552992084
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 21mm
Weight: 178g
256 pages