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Titel: The Water-Method ManFörfattare: John IrvingISBN: 034541800x
Förlag: Ballantine Books
Utgivningsår: 1997
Språk: Engelska
Bandtyp: Häftad/Storpocket
Skick: Gott skick – läsveck på ryggen; veck vid främre omslagets övre hörn; något nötta hörn, ryggändar och kanter.
First Trade Edition; Fourth Printing.
Fred ”Bogus” Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: 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.
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. . . .
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….
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.
Praise for The Water-Method Man:
“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 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 outstanding traits of The World According to Garp, but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . is already handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method Man [which is Garp’s predecessor by six years].”—Terrence Des Pres
“Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.”—Time
“Three or four times as funny as most novels.”—The New Yorker
“John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.”—Los Angeles Times
