Cover of The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

by John Irving

3.7
(19 ratings)
610 pages1999Random House Publishing GroupISBN 9780345915597
FictionHumor
Open in BookOwlDownload on App Store

About this book

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONwith a new Afterword from the author The "New York Times" bestseller 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."

Publication Details

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
1999
Pages
610
ISBN
9780345915597
Language
en

About John Irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. ([source][1]) [1]: http://john-irving.com/john-irving-bio/

More by John Irving

Cover of The World According to Garp A Novel

The World According to Garp A Novel

John Irving

5.0
Cover of A Widow for One Year

A Widow for One Year

Unknown Author

5.0
Cover of A widow for one year

A widow for one year

Unknown Author

5.0
Cover of The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire

Unknown Author

4.2
Cover of The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire

Unknown Author

4.2
Cover of The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

Unknown Author

4.0

Track your reading journey with BookOwl

Open in BookOwlDownload on App Store