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The 158-Pound Marriage


<p>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 <b>The World According to Garp</b>; 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.</p> <p>Sometimes they looked at each other, aroused half out of their minds by the thought that each had just been making love with another, and it would be enough to make them want to do it--together--all over again. Well, almost enough . . . . </p>

Author(s): John Irving  

ISBN 10: 0345417968
ISBN 13: 9780345417961
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Publication: June 1997
Edition: ~
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