The book is small, only 176 pages, compared to Irving's later weighty tomes, like the 610 page The World According to Garp (1978) and The Cider House Rules (1985), which is 973 pages. The title, The 158-Pound Marriage, refers to the 158-pound weight class in wrestling, which Severin, the coach, feels is the most competitive. At first, the swinging goes smoothly, but eventually, uneven feelings and obsessions throw the couples off track. Cover Type: Softcover Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: None Issued Publisher: Corgi Publisher Place: London Publisher Year: 1980.
The couple's interests (Edith is an aspiring fiction writer, and Severin has a commonality with Utch's upbringing in Austria) and resulting infatuations between the couples lead to after-dinner partner-swapping. At a faculty party, they meet Severin Winter, a Viennese-born professor and coach of the college wrestling team, and his wife, Edith. His mother remarried when John was six, and the boy was renamed John Winslow Irving. The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving: 9780345417961 : Books Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.The Washington Post. This is John Irvings third novelthe one he wrote before 'The World According to Garp,' the book that truly ignited his career. They are a relatively happy couple their family rounded out by two children. Irvings parents divorced during his mothers pregnancy, and he was born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. The narrator met his wife Utch, an orphaned survivor of WWII, in Vienna while doing research. /rebates/2fsigned-first-edition2f158-Pound-Marriage-Irving-John-Random-House2f42696642772fbd&. The 158-Pound Marriage, author John Irving's third published novel, revolves around an unidentified narrator, a college professor, and a mediocre novelist. Irvings cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests.
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