The 158-Pound Marriage Book Reviews

AUTHOR
John Irving
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
225

The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving Book Summary

“Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”—The Washington Post

The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage 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.

“One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . . The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.”—Terrence Des Pres

“Deft, hard-hitting . . . What Irving demonstrates beautifully is that a one-to-one relationship is more demanding than a free-for-all.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Book Name The 158-Pound Marriage
Genre Literary Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.44 MB

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Summary of The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving

The The 158-Pound Marriage book written by John Irving was published on 12 August 1974, Monday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 225 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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