The book explores the sexual revolution-era trend of 'swinging' (partner-swapping) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New Englandcollege town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences. Published in 1974 at the height of the sexual revolution, 'The 158-Pound Marriage,' is warning salvo about the dangers of free love and the havoc it can wreak on hearts and marriages and lives. The 158-Pound Marriageis the third novel by American author John Irving. What Irving demonstrates beautifully is that a one-to-one relationship is more demanding than a free-for-all. This is John Irving's third novelthe one he wrote before 'The World According to Garp,' the book that truly ignited his career. The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.”-Terrence Des Pres “One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. 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. On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her. The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this sensual, 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. The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage 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 authors generally robust, boisterous style. Read 436 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
“Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”- The Washington Post
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