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"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."--Los Angeles Times

"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."--Los Angeles Times

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... Read Full Overview

The Waterman is the story of a "disillusioned man". The main character, Trimper, is "thirty years old". He is divorced, losing both his wife and his best friend; he is delaying his graduation and muddling through his dissertation; he is suffering from a hidden disease, but he... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview