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 John Irving's third and perhaps darkest novel, The 158-Pound Marriage examines the sexual revolution-era trend of 'swinging' (wife swapping) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an... 
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 The Washington Post Aggressive Wrestling Puts Navy's Schleicher in 158-Pound NCAA Final
03/24/1990: 718 words, approx. 2 pages After taking a tongue-lashing from his coaches and endless advice from a throng of relatives, after surviving two overtime matches, a foot cramp and a battle to make weight, Navy senior Scott Schleicher made the final of the 158-pound division of the 60th annual... summary from source:
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Marriage it is not
03/22/2007: 457 words, approx. 2 pages The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-22-2007 Marriage it is not -- Same-sex couples are not flocking to civil unions Date: 03-22-2007, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions ON Feb. 19, New Jersey's civil union law went into effect. Gay advocates expected a... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Coping With Irving Sprawl: One Novel? Or Two and Change?
7/17/2005: 1,144 words, approx. 4 pagesUntil I Find You: A Novel, by John Irving. Random House, 824 pages, $27.95 Until I Find You, John Irving's massive new novel, is of a type that you often hear referred to as “sprawling”—which, when you think about it, just means “extremely long... summary from source:
The New York Observer Coping With Irving Sprawl: One Novel? Or Two and Change?
7/17/2005: 1,143 words, approx. 4 pagesUntil I Find You: A Novel, by John Irving. Random House, 824 pages, $27.95Until I Find You, John Irving's massive new novel, is of a type that you often hear referred to as "sprawling"-which, when you think about it, just means "extremely long and somewhat...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Charles Nicol
358 words, approx. 1 pages
The title [The 158-Pound Marriage] comes from one of the characters who evaluates everything in terms of college wrestling weight classes; it indicates moderate approval. Although the novel is also middleweight in both size and subject, it is all muscle, all confidence and speed and sure grip. (p. 1187) John Irving knows what he is doing, and his confidence is reflected in his decision to start his novel with two epigraphs, one from Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, the other from John Hawkes... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell
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John Irving is a young, eccentrically talented novelist with a singular rage to instruct. His books—funny, cleverly written, sometimes oddly endearing—provide a wealth of information about subjects one hardly expects to encounter in works of fiction…. [In The 158-Pound Marriage] the title and many of the episodes derive from wrestling, a sport that, as far as I know, has been unnoticed by contemporary authors. From Irving's previous book, The Water-Method Man, one learned a great... summary from source:
Critical Essay by S. K. Oberbeck
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[The 158-Pound Marriage] is impressively flashy in episode and style, deceptively arch, and pocked all over with little depth charges of drama that rumble up with an aching, rueful but often hilarious humor. Irving fingers a human foible like a wary teenager feeling for incipient pimples: gingerly, gently, hoping against hope, but secretly stung by that sinking vision of victorious acne…. Irving is an ambitious and clever writer who looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating danc...
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