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John Irving - The Water-Method Man (2nd Hand Paperback)
SKU B004096
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Synopsis / AI Summary
The International Bestseller.
Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first.
The Water-Method Man is a work of consummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Humorous Fiction
- Published : 1972 (This Edition 2012 - Black Swan)
- ISBN : 9780552992077
- SKU : B004096
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry." - Time.
"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist. He is not afraid to take on great themes." - Los Angeles Times.
"John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J. D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either." - The Times.
"Three or four times as funny as most novels." - The New Yorker.
The Author
John Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of his fourth novel The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 for his script of the film adaptation of The Cider House Rules. Five of his novels have been fully or partially adapted into the films.
Several of Irving's books and short stories have been set in and around New England, in fictional towns resembling Exeter, New Hampshire. Irving's novels usually centre around small towns depicted in large, sprawling contexts, constituting many of his works as epic.
