"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."--Los Angeles Times Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles.
In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Acade.
Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
In 1992, Mr.
A rich, unified tapestry."--Time About the Author: John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. and with a freedom almost wanton in The Water-Method Man which is Garp\'s predecessor by six years]."--Terrence Des Pres"Brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. . . isalready handled with mastery . . . stories inside stories . . . his will to come at the world from different directions, is one of the outstandint traits of The World According to Garp, but this remarkable flair for . . .
Irving\'s multiple manner . . . .
Harm and disarray are daily fare, as if the course of love could not run true.
Life, in John] Irving\'s fiction, is always under siege. "Three or four times as funny as most novels."--The New Yorker Praise for The Water-Method Man "Friendship, marriage, and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and distrupt, often fatally.
Written when Irving was twenty-nine, Trumper\'s tale of woe is told with all the wit and humor that would become Irving\'s trademark. . . .
There\'s only one problem: it seems the harder he tries to alter his adolescent ways, the more he is drawn to repeating the mistakes of the past.
Trumper is determined to change.
A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness: His ex-wife has moved in with his childhood best friend, his life is the subject of a tell-all movie, and his chronic urinary tract infection requires surgery. "John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist."--Los Angeles Times Fred "Bogus" Trumper has troubles
