description: 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. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.
language: English
title: The World According To Garp
titlecomplete: The World According To Garp
characters: Helen Garp, Roberta Muldoon, T.S. Garp, Jenny Fields
genres: Fiction, American, Drama, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 225146
places: The United States of America, New England, Boston, Massachusetts, Austria, Vienna
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: Pocket