Synopsis
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 remarkable resemblance to his first....
"Three or four times as funny as most novels."
THE NEW YORKER
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"Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry" (Time)
"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist. He is not afraid to take on great themes" (Los Angeles Times)
"John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J. D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either" (The Times)
"Three or four times as funny as most novels" (The New Yorker)
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A modern classic from one of the world's greatest living writers.
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The Water-Method Man
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. See photos for more information. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1772951090
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The Water-Method Man
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Withdrawn library copy with stamps, markings and pocket. Spine tilt, tears to top spine. Dust jacket in brodart, tears, top 1/3" spine missing, torn, else good+. Seller Inventory # 026921
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The Water-Method Man
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Hardcover. Condition: USED Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Jacket. First Edition. Stated first edition with Random House's number line starting with 2, per their bizarre method. Jacket brodarted and not price-clipped, though it does have tears and stains. The boards are also stained. Text clean, binding tight. Seller Inventory # 556402
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The Water-Method Man
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minor wear, otherwise very good. Seller Inventory # 98906
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THE WATER - METHOD MAN
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1972. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 365 pp., bound in publishers blue and yellow cloth with illustrated white dust jacket, $6.95. Very minor signs of shelf wear with some light rubbing at edges of jacket. Text edges dusty, text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. The Water-Method Man is John Irving's second novel, published in 1972, about Fred "Bogus" Trumper, a perpetually failing graduate student in 1970s New York dealing with a chronic urinary tract infection, a messy divorce, and a new relationship, all while trying to change his life. Seller Inventory # 37255
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The Water-Method Man
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New York: Random House, (1972). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 365 pp. Original half navy cloth over yellow paper-covered boards, stamped in blue, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Moderate edge wear with wrinkling - particular to spine, handling smudges and surface scratches . Tiny vertical tear to top front panel edge. Light curling to spine ends. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm.Light forward lean. Light wear to edges. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket: Very Good Hardcover: Very Good "In a 1972 review, Kirkus acknowledged the book's "tremendous comic drive." Time greeted the novel with enthusiasm: "Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. A rich, unified tapestry." Five of his novels have been adapted into films (Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow). Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1769565929150
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The Water-Method Man
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Book is tight, square and clean and is a stated "First Edition" with the obligatory Random House number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 depicting a True First Printing. The page block has some age toning, not uncommon for the age of the book and a small closed tear at the bottom of page 137. Boards a clean and bright. The mylar protected DJ is price-intact ($6.95) and has edge wear to the superior spine edge and slight darkening to the inferior spine edge. There are NO tears. Seller Inventory # 002271
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book is bound in bright decorative yellow boards with a bright black spine & bright blue letters. There is very, very light wear on the spine tips. The contents are clean, bright & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Edition". The number line goes to 2. The bright white dust has very, very light wear & slight darkening along the edges. No chips or tears, $6.95 on the flap. Seller Inventory # 7147 (Box 324)