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The 158-Pound Marriage is the third novel by American author John Irving. The book explores the sexual revolution -era trend of "swinging" (partner-swapping) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences.
The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage 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.
6 Jul 2010 · The 158-pound marriage by Irving, John, 1942- Publication date 1978 Publisher New York : Pocket Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Originally published: New York : Random House, 1974 Roman over de huwelijksproblematiek van een Amerikaanse schrijver en zijn Oostenrijkse echtgenote
15 Mei 2018 · The 158-Pound Marriage. John Irving. Random House Publishing Group, May 15, 2018 - Fiction - 176 pages. “Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to...
The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.”—Terrence Des Pres“Deft, hard-hitting . . . What Irving demonstrates beautifully is that a one-to-one relationship is more demanding than a free-for-all.”—The New York Times Book Review.
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...
23 Jun 1997 · “One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . ....
