![]() ![]() The narrator begins a mentor-protégé relationship with Edith, and soon the couples are sharing dinners and play dates with their children. ![]() At the opening of the novel, the narrator and Utch are married with two children and live a relatively placid existence until, at a faculty party, they become acquainted with Severin Winter, a Viennese-born professor of German and coach of the school's wrestling team, and his wife Edith, a WASP from a privileged background (she met her husband in Vienna while on a buying trip for MOMA) who is an aspiring fiction writer. ![]() While doing research in Vienna, Austria, he met Utch, an orphaned survivor of the German occupation and the Russian siege at the end of World War II. The narrator (who never identifies himself by name) is a college professor and a relatively unsuccessful author of historical novels. The book explores the sexual revolution-era trend of " swinging" (partner-swapping) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences. The 158-Pound Marriage is the third novel by American author John Irving. ![]()
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