LoveReading Says
This is an extraordinary book, funny, surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly sad. It’s long, some 600 pages, and truly compulsive. Even if at times you are not sure quite what is happening, it has you spellbound. It’s about fatherhood, writing, fear and life, with some truly memorable characters.
A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...
‘This is an extraordinary novel from one of the greatest contemporary American authors. Perhaps the best known and most loved of Irving’s books, and rightly hailed as a modern classic, The World According to Garp is an utterly captivating, thought-provoking masterpiece with the most wonderful characters you will ever meet.' Emma Buckley, Assistant Editor at Transworld
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The World According to Garp Synopsis
Winner of the National Book Award
"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it." -The New Republic
"Wonderful . . . full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking." -Washington Post
Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving's breakout novel. The precursor of Irving's later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing-and of her son, Garp, less beloved but no less polarizing.
From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line-"we are all terminal cases"-The World According to Garp maintains a breakneck pace. The subject of sexual hatred and violence-of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences-runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. Available in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780593186879 |
| Publication date: |
31st August 2021 |
| Author: |
John Irving |
| Publisher: |
Dutton Books an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
544 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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