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."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.
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: 225114
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: Modern Library