num_pages: 609
description: This is the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. 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 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: Helen Garp, Jenny Fields, Roberta Muldoon, T.S. Garp
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Drama, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 225096
places: The United States of America, New England, Austria, 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