The World According to Garp
"This is the life and times of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny
Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her times. Theirs is a world of sexual
extremes and even sexual assassinations. 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, this novel provides almost
cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world
according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
[Publisher blurb]
I don't think there's anything I can say about this one that hasn't
already been said. This is the one that began it all, the one that introduced
the world to the genius of John Irving.
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