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158-Pound Marriage (Black Swan)
John Irving
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Description for 158-Pound Marriage (Black Swan)
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
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,..
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552992084
SKU
V9780552992084
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99-98
About John Irving
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that ... Read more
Reviews for 158-Pound Marriage (Black Swan)
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more