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The World According to Garp
John Irving
Modern Library
May 1998
On Sale: April 20, 1998
720 pages ISBN: 0679603069 EAN: 9780679603061 Hardcover
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The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate
coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of
the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide
bestseller
since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled
with stories inside stories about the life and times of T.
S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a
feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World
According to Garp virtually defies
synopsis. "Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said
critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and
play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but
at that blundering level of life where mishap and
folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude
and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is
always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's
popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really
the world according to nearly everyone."
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