“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 The Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.”—Terrence Des Pres “Deft, hard-hitting. · Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.” —The Washington Post. “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 The Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated Brand: Random House Publishing Group. ― John Irving, The Pound Marriage. 4 likes. Like “It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else.” ― John Irving, The Pound Marriage. 1 likes. Like “Nuviliame tik patys save. Turėtume pasistengti kuo labiau sumažinti visą tą atsakomybę, kurią jaučiamės esą skolingi kitiems.”Cited by: 6.
About The Pound Marriage. "Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications."—. The Washington Post. The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to. "There's a precious amount of having-one's-cake-and-eating-it-too shit going on around here." John Irving's third novel tells the story of wife-swapping among New England academics. The unnamed narrarator describes how he and his wife, Utch, became entangled in an affair with Edith Winter, a fledgling writer and her husband Severin, a wrestling coach. In John Irving Man () received enthusiastic notices; The Pound Marriage () was roundly bltadwin.ru World According to Garp, however, struck a chord with the international reading bltadwin.rud with comedy and violence, Irving's breakthrough book chronicles the tragic life and death of the novelist T.S. Garp. Rife with his signature milieus.
The Pound Marriage. “My wife, Utchka (whose name I sometime ago shortened to Utch), could teach patience to a time bomb.”. 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. PUND MARRIAGE is one of Irving's better novels. The plot is based around two couples who swap partners and accidentily fall in love with each other's spouses in the process. Through odd circumstances, all four couples are interconnected. The 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.
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