num_pages: 610
description: 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."
language: English
title: The World According to Garp
titlecomplete: The World According to Garp
characters: Jenny Fields, Roberta Muldoon, Helen Garp, T.S. Garp
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 225091
places: New England, Austria, The United States of America, Vienna, Boston, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 252489600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books