The World According to Garp
Journey through generations and across two continents with the astonishing family of T. S. Garp, bastard son of a belligerent mother. Garp loves, lusts, labors and triumphs in a world of assassins, wrestlers, feminist fanatics, tantalizing teen-age babysitters, adoring children and a wayward...
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Journey through generations and across two continents with the astonishing family of T. S. Garp, bastard son of a belligerent mother. Garp loves, lusts, labors and triumphs in a world of assassins, wrestlers, feminist fanatics, tantalizing teen-age babysitters, adoring children and a wayward wife. His life is comic, tragic, violent and tender, his world outrageous. And it is as real as our own. "Like all great works of art, Irving's novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight." (Cosmopolitan)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525237709 (0525237704)
Publish date: April 24th 1978
Publisher: New York: Dutton
Pages no: 437
Edition language: English
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