The Water-Method Man (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by John Irving

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“John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.”—Los Angeles Times

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. 

Trumper is determined to change. There's only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the...Read more
  • ISBN10 034541800X
  • ISBN13 9780345418005
  • Publish Date 23 June 1997 (first published 22 February 1980)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 22 January 2025
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc