Suggested: The 158 Pound Marriage

THE 158 POUND MARRIAGE
Written by John Irving
Category: Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Psychological;
Paperback

Publishers thingie:

The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive.


* Its a tiny book that starts out slow but becomes a page turner. A good story with great character development that will give us lots to talk about. Irving has written a bunch of good novels that were turned into mediocre movies (World According to Garp, Simon Birch Owen Meany, Ciderhouse Rules, The Door in the Floor). If you saw any of those movies, please don't hold that against the the author. * - Rich