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The Water-Method Man
  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992077
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $29.99

The Water-Method Man

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A modern classic from one of the world's greatest living writers.

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 cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.
  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780552992077
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • 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 Water-Method Man

Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry

Time

John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J. D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either

The Times

John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist. He is not afraid to take on great themes

Los Angeles Times

Three or four times as funny as most novels

The New Yorker