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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. [1] [2]
May 15, 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...
Jun 23, 1997 · The 158-Pound Marriage (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Paperback – June 23, 1997. by John Irving (Author) 3.6 309 ratings. See all formats and editions. “Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”—The Washington Post.
May 15, 2018 · The 158-Pound Marriage. 1. The Angel Called“The Smile of Reims” My wife, Utchka (whose name I sometime ago shortened to Utch), could teach patience to a time bomb. With some luck, she has taught me a little. Utch learned patience under what we might call duress.
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...
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...
One way to read The 158-Pound Marriage is as a kind of social experiment in which many of the principles of monogamy and marriage are challenged as a way of shedding new light on the institution of marriage. What are your thoughts about this approach to the novel?
