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The 158-Pound Marriage
  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992084
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

The 158-Pound Marriage

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A modern classic from the international bestseller John Irving.


On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Utchka and Severin are rather taken with one another, and, conveniently, their spouses appear to be similarly smitten.A bizarre ménage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires, and what starts out as a bit of fun is soon subject to the darker machinations of obsession,..
  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992084
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules – a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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Praise for The 158-Pound Marriage

The most important American humorist to appear in the last ten years

Kurt Vonnegut

Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world really is the world according to everyone

Time

John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J.D.Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft. This superbly original book is one to be read and remembered

The Times