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The World According to Garp

John Irving

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#153 of 8,085 books · #75 in Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1980). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

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."

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Publisher
Koch Media AG
ISBN-13
9780671822200
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and motherhoodFeminism and gender rolesLife, death, and identity

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