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The 158-pound Marriage (Black Swan)

By: John Irving
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
ISBN: 0552992089
ISBN-13: 9780552992084
Released: 01 Jul 1986
RRP: £7.99
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Entertaining and a taste of whats to come - By: GeeJayBee, 25 Jun 2008
I have to say this is a lot better than the other reviews suggest. Its an easy & entertaining read in which Irving intertwines a current complex relationship with character histories going back several decades.
In this novel you can see the seeds of Hotel New Hampshire & Garp & the recurrent Irving themes & backgrounds (Wrestling, German, Austria, sex) are very much evident. I very much enjoyed it.
Early Irving - By: A reader, 28 Jun 2006
This is one of John Irving's earlier novels. It does not reach the heights of his work during his best phase, which ran from "The world according to Garp" to "A son of the circus", but I think fans of Irving will find it interesting. Some of his constant preoccupations turn up here (wrestling, Vienna) & the seriocomic elements are firmly in place. It meanders much less than his more recent works. Indeed, beside the gargantuan "Until I find you" (which this reviewer is still reading), it is practicallly a short story.
The turnips have gone cold Mildred - By: , 17 Nov 1999
The story in the book is very moving in a strange ethereal sort of big outlandishly childish postmodern apocalyptic kinda americo-anglicised french novelist on a bicycle with a sting of onions around his neck way. I particularly liked the scene involving Mildred the undead militant-trotskyist housekeeper who wears unwashed pvc hotpants while cooking turnips. This brought tears to my eyes the descriptions were that great. I only wish he could write like me.