Book :: The World According to Garp
| By: | John Irving |
| Pages: | 609 |
| Published: | 1978 |
| Genre(s): | Humor |
| American | |
| Adult Fiction | |
| Award(s): | National Book Award (1980) |
| Rating: | (11) |
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This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a 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 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. In...
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