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Title: The 158-Pound Marriage

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1974
Paperback, 1997

Synopsis
Irving's dark early novel is about a ménage à quatre in a New England university town: two married couples whose sexual hangups, troubled pasts, and selfish desires create difficulties as they search for perfect erotic openness.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        255 Pages
Weight:        0.3 Pounds
Height:         6.8 Inches
Width:          4.3 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches


Publisher Notes
"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 authors generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irvings 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

Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The 158-Pound Marriage and it was written by John Irving. This edition of The 158-Pound Marriage is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is September 1994 and it has a suggested retail price of $7.99. There are 255 pages in the book and it was published by Ballantine Books. The 10 digit ISBN is 034536743X and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780345367433. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.