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158 Pound Marriage (Paperback)

by John irving (Author)
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  • Paperback: 255 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket (1 Sep 1978)
  • ISBN-10: 0671822535
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671822538
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A nice little surprise, 3 April 2009
This review is from: The 158-Pound Marriage (Export Ed) (Paperback)
This is an early Irving which, as usual, contains references to wrestling and features the city of Vienna. This is the story of a foursome, quirky stories about their individual pasts and how they all met. But also about where this unusual relationship is going. As often with Irving you wonder "but where does he get this from?!". From Utch's childhood (found hiding in a cow by a Russian army officer), to Edith and Severin's trip to Greece and the watermelon truck, how Edith seems to never be able to differentiate between her two children, Utch's jealous roommates gradually shaving off all their body hair to protest as she got married, the guy with a hole in his cheek, the surprise goodbye ceremony from Severin's friends, and everything about Audrey Cannon (I won't spoil the plot on this one). This is all so original and funny. Irving created very likeable characters. He even managed to convey his passion for wrestling through Severin's character in a rather subtle way.

I was not very keen on reading this book as this is an early Irving which does not seem very popular but I think this is a little gem. Not his best but definitely unpretentious and a great read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and a taste of whats to come, 25 Jun 2008
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I have to say this is a lot better than the other reviews suggest. Its an easy and 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 and Garp and the recurrent Irving themes and backgrounds (Wrestling, German, Austria, sex) are very much evident. I very much enjoyed it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Early Irving, 28 Jun 2006
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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) and 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 practically a short story.
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