The World According to Garp
β Scribed by John Irving
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada; Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 357 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0735276188
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β¦ Synopsis
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Paperback, 640 pages
Published 1978
National Book Award for Fiction (1980)
Radcliffe 100 Best Novels
TheGreatestBooks.org Top 500 Ever |
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fieldsβa feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremesβeven of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countriesβwith more than ten million copies in printβthis novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1978), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1979)
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