The 158-pound Marriage (Black Swan)
de Irving, John
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0552992089
- ISBN 13
- 9780552992084
- Librería
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sinopsis
The 158-Pound Marriage, author John Irving's third published novel, revolves around an unidentified narrator, a college professor, and a mediocre novelist. The narrator met his wife Utch, an orphaned survivor of WWII, in Vienna while doing research. They are a relatively happy couple; their family rounded out by two children. At a faculty party, they meet Severin Winter, a Viennese-born professor and coach of the college wrestling team, and his wife, Edith. The couple's interests (Edith is an aspiring fiction writer, and Severin has a commonality with Utch's upbringing in Austria) and resulting infatuations between the couples lead to after-dinner partner-swapping. At first, the swinging goes smoothly, but eventually, uneven feelings and obsessions throw the couples off track. The title, The 158-Pound Marriage , refers to the 158-pound weight class in wrestling, which Severin, the coach, feels is the most competitive. The book is small, only 176 pages, compared to Irving's later weighty tomes, like the 610 page The World According to Garp ( 1978) and The Cider House Rules (1985), which is 973 pages.
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- Librería
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Z0186919
- Título
- The 158-pound Marriage (Black Swan)
- Autor
- Irving, John
- Estado del libro
- Used - Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0552992089
- ISBN 13
- 9780552992084
- Editorial
- Transworld Pub
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- July 1, 1986
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