World According to Garp: A Novel - Hardcover

Irving, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525237704 ISBN 13: 9780525237709

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1978

Synopsis

T. S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people including teachers, whores, and radicals

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Review:

"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art."
--The Washington Post
"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Brilliant, funny, and
consistently wise; a work of vast talent."
--The New Republic

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation . . . Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. . . . A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers. "Chicago Sun-Times"
Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent. "The New Republic
" A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking. "Washington Post
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"The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation . . . Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. . . . A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent."--The New Republic

"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking."--Washington Post

Book Description:

An extraordinary novel, perhaps the best known and most loved of Irving's books, and rightly hailed as a modern classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0525237704
• ISBN 13: 9780525237709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 437