The Water-Method Man by John Irving

The Water-Method Man

John Irving

272 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

fiction contemporary dark reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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