The water-method man (Broché)

Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. A divorced, broke graduate student of Old Norse in 1970s New York, he contemplates his New England childhood, his time as a foreign student in Vienna, and his failed marriage to Sue `Biggie' Kunft, a former championship downhill skier. Trumper is determined to change. 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...