The Water-Method Man

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...more

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 YORKERFrom the Paperback edition.   less