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The World According to Garp

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  • Apr 24, 1978
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John Irving
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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 s... Show More

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 more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—this 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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Number of Pages: 610

ISBN: 0345915593

ISBN-13: 9780345915597

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Sam Burt @wordsburt · Jun 19, 2018
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“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.”
Jonathan Franklin @jfranklin88 · Dec 31, 2022
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