The 158-pound marriage
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 1997, c1974.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
IRVING John
2 available
IRVING John
2 available
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult) | IRVING John | Available |
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult) | IRVING John | Available |
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, 1997, c1974.
Edition
1st Ballantine Books trade ed.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage 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.