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The 158-Pound Marriage (Mass Market Paperback)

by John Irving (Author) "My wife, Utchka (whose name I some time ago shortened to Utch), could teach patience to a time bomb..." (more)
Key Phrases: wrestling room, man with the hole, old cage, Severin Winter, Frau Reiner, Audrey Cannon (more...)
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"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 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft."
—Terrence Des Pres

"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-ca