He launches his writing career, courts and marries the wrestling coach's daughter, and fathers three children. Garp grows up, interested in sex, wrestling, and writing fiction-three topics in which his mother has little interest. Jenny raises young Garp alone, taking a position at a boys' school. S." standing only for "Technical Sergeant"). Jenny has intercourse with the bedridden, uncomprehending, dying Technical Sergeant Garp to impregnate herself, and names the resultant son after him ("T. She encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp who was reduced to a perpetually priapic mental vegetable by pieces of shrapnel that pierced his head. She is asexual, a trait condemned by her family and disapproved of by society. His mother, Jenny Fields, a strong-willed nurse, wants a child but not a husband. This novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases." ( From the publisher.)
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. 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. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her times. 'A diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight.This is the life and times of T. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time.īeautifully written, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. 'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking.terrific' WASHINGTON POSTĪnniversary edition with a new afterword from the author.Ī worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. 'BRILLIANT' Cosmpolitan 'ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY' L A Times A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.Īnniversary edition with a new afterword from the author
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