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The water-method man

The water-method man

by John Irving

1972FictionMan-woman relationshipsGraduate studentsAbnormalities, HumanYoung men
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Originally published, New York , Random House, 1972

Themes & subjects

FictionMan-woman relationshipsGraduate studentsAbnormalities, HumanYoung menFathers and sons
First published 1972

About the author

John Irving
John Irving

2 march 1942

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languag…

Author

John Irving

First published

1972

Pages

370

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

8

Languages

English, German, French

Publisher

Diogenes

ISBN

9782020101844

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