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Author: Irving, John, 1942-
Title: The water-method man / John Irving
Publisher: New York: Ballentine, 1991
Impression: 4th printing
Description: 399 p ; 20 cm
ISBN: 0-345-36742-1
Condition: minimal edge wear, otherwise very good condition, clean and solid
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract - and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first.
»Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly - something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true... Irvings multiple manner... his will to com eat the world form different directions, ist one of the outstanding traits of The World according to Garp, but this remarkable flair for stories inside stories is already handled with mastery and with freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method Man [which is Garps predecessor by six years].
Terrence Des Pres
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