The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

â€œJohn Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.â€â€”Los Angeles Times

Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles.Â A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, TrumperÂ is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness:Â His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery.Â

Trumper is determined to change. There's only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . .

Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumper's tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irving's trademark.

â€œThree or four times as funny as most novels.â€â€”The New Yorker

Praise for The Water-Method Man

â€œFriendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and follyâ€”something close to joyful maliceâ€”perpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in [John] Irving's fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irving's multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of The World According to Garp, but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method ManÂ [which is Garp's predecessor by six years].â€â€”Terrence Des Pres

â€œBrutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.â€â€”Time
Country USA
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-05-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-05-15
Format	Kindle eBook

The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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