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The 158-Pound Marriage
de John Irving
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Random House, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 pale green paper over olive cloth, with titles stamped in gilt an/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394484142
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484143
- Librería
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage 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 author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's 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.
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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- Título
- The 158-Pound Marriage
- Autor
- John Irving
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Random House, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 pale green paper over olive cloth, with titles stamped in gilt an
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Random House, 1974. First Edition. First Printing.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0394484142
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484143
- Editorial
- Random House Inc
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- (1974)
- Catálogos del vendedor
- FICTION / Romance / Adult;
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