# The 158-Pound Marriage

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- Book: [The 158-Pound Marriage](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-158-pound-marriage) ([The 158-Pound Marriage.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-158-pound-marriage.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: ballantine_books
- ISBN: 978-03-4541-796-1
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1997-06-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications.”—The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this...