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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 10/05/2012
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ISBN: 9781448111886
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Utchka and Severin are rather taken with one another, and, conveniently, their spouses appear to be similarly smitten.A bizarre ménage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires, and what starts out as a bit of fun is soon subject to the darker machinations of obsession,..
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 10/05/2012
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ISBN: 9781448111886
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"The most important American humorist to appear in the last ten years"
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world really is the world according to everyone"
Time
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"John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J.D.Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft. This superbly original book is one to be read and remembered"
The Times
