num_pages: 603
description: This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also 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. It 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, Roberta Muldoon, T.S. Garp, Jenny Fields
genres: Fiction, American, Drama, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 225112
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: Black Swan