The Water-Method Man

"Three or four times as funny as most novels" "The New Yorker" Fred "Bogus" Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happines. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, an dis about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkeble resemblance to his first. "The water-Method Man" is a work of consummate artisty and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation. "John Irving, it is aboundantly clear; is a true artist. He is not afraid to take on great themes" "Los Angeles Times" "Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry" "Time" "John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J. D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either" "The Times"