Description: About this productProduct InformationWinner 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.
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Book Title: The World According to Garp
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Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Dutton
Original Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1978
Publication Year: 1978
Type: Novel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1970s
Special Attributes: First Edition, First Printing, First Issue DJ
Author: John Irving
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
