The World According to Garp
John Irving
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even 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. The novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Koch Media AG
- Year
- 1978
- ISBN-13
- 9780671822200
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Family and motherhoodFeminism and gender rolesLife, death, and identity
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1979)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
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