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3031948The Water-Method Manhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-water-method-man-9781984800077/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2272696/16d13c51-05a3-4b2c-9150-6f1feaf9be77.jpg?v=638383748029230000106117MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>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 requires surgery.</p><p>Trumper is determined to change. Theres only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . .</p><p>Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumpers tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irvings trademark.</p><p><strong>Three or four times as funny as most novels.</strong><strong>The New Yorker</strong></p><p><strong>Praise for <em>The Water-Method Man</em></strong></p><p>Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and follysomething close to joyful maliceperpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in [John] Irvings fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irvings multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of <em>The World According to Garp,</em> but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in <em>The Water-Method Man</em> [which is Garps predecessor by six years].<strong>Terrence Des Pres</strong></p><p>Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.<strong><em>Time</em></strong></p>...2968203The Water-Method Man106117https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-water-method-man-9781984800077/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2272696/16d13c51-05a3-4b2c-9150-6f1feaf9be77.jpg?v=638383748029230000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189781984800077_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;9781984800077_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_<p><strong>John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>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 requires surgery.</p><p>Trumper is determined to change. Theres only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . .</p><p>Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumpers tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irvings trademark.</p><p><strong>Three or four times as funny as most novels.</strong><strong>The New Yorker</strong></p><p><strong>Praise for <em>The Water-Method Man</em></strong></p><p>Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and follysomething close to joyful maliceperpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in John Irvings fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irvings multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of <em>The World According to Garp,</em> but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in <em>The Water-Method Man</em> which is Garps predecessor by six years.<strong>Terrence Des Pres</strong></p><p>Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.<strong><em>Time</em></strong></p>...(*_*)9781984800077_<p><strong>John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>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 requires surgery.</p><p>Trumper is determined to change. Theres only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past. . . .</p><p>Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumpers tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irvings trademark.</p><p><strong>Three or four times as funny as most novels.</strong><strong>The New Yorker</strong></p><p><strong>Praise for <em>The Water-Method Man</em></strong></p><p>Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and follysomething close to joyful maliceperpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally. Life, in [John] Irvings fiction, is always under siege. Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true. . . . Irvings multiple manner . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of <em>The World According to Garp,</em> but this remarkable flair for . . . stories inside stories . . . isalready handled with mastery . . . and with a freedom almost wanton in <em>The Water-Method Man</em> [which is Garps predecessor by six years].<strong>Terrence Des Pres</strong></p><p>Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry.<strong><em>Time</em></strong></p>...9781984800077_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_41803a53-7dad-3c7e-ab1d-e2f94330429f_9781984800077;9781984800077_9781984800077John IrvingInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-e180db8b-bc42-44f5-b262-54053972871c.epub2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group