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Water Method Man
Water Method Man
Author: John Irving
Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780671440022
ISBN-10: 0671440020
Publication Date: 7/3/1981
Pages: 381
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  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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One of Irving's early novels, this book kept me in stitches. I liked it.
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absurd and humorous. your teenager should love it.
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this was a really good book. typical irving.
nana23 avatar reviewed Water Method Man on + 243 more book reviews
Not my favorite John Irving, but I am glad I read it.
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From the author of "The Cider House Rules" and "The World According to Garp" comes a novel filled with comedy, chaos, and sharp observation.
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I'm a huge fan of John Irving's. This is his 2nd book, I believe-after Hotel New Hampshire.
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Book Description
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first....
"Three or four times as funny as most novels."
THE NEW YORKER
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Classic John Irving. Like World According to Garp features a thoroughly developed and fascinating character in Bogus Trumper.

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