Washington Post Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irvings breakout novel.
full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking. Book Synopsis Winner of the National Book Award Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. Available in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print- Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom.-Provided by publisher. The subject of sexual hatred and violence-of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences-runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line-we are all terminal cases- The World According to Garp maintains a breakneck pace. The precursor of Irvings later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who bes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing-and of her son, Garp, less beloved but no less polarizing.
About the Book Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irvings breakout novel.
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