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The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving among the most imaginative writers of his generation. An internationally bestseller
since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled up with stories inside stories about the life span and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader before her time. Beyond that, THE PLANET According to Garp almost defies
synopsis.
----"Nothing in modern-day fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something near to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is often under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is easy to understand. His world is actually the entire world according to practically everyone."
----This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.
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