![]() *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. 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." ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her times. ![]()
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