I alone in front of my obsessions,

I think I've read every book by John Irving. I missed this one. I bought it by chance. And what a fall! Well it contains the usual themes of John Irving: the absent father, wrestling (sport), writing, Vienna, Austria, he even has a comic allusion to bear, etc. But what it took him to tell this story bisexual? Transsexuals? D'homos? Transvestites? I admit that a writer can get into the skin of the characters but then it gets stuck. The main character is a heterosexual who plays a role, it never happens either in one camp or the other, it must be seen as a lock author on the subject of sodomy? This is nonsense. The errors are represented by the character of geographical errors. The narrator is surrounded only by people tortured, to complicated or erratic sexuality, one attaches to anyone, except perhaps the transsexual with whom the narrator to a rather long history and is poignant in her life up the end. It would have been funny if it was porn, not even! We do not even escape the scabrous with "stench" of love. We swim in the dark, nothing is credible. In short reread the World According to Garp and Hotel New Hampshire!