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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 first...." Three or four times as funny as most novels." THE NEW YORKERFrom the Paperback edition.

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