The World According to Garp

Fiction. Literature. HTML:Now available as an ebook for the first time ever in America, the bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving�the 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.  �He is more than popular. He is a Populist, determined to keep alive the Dickensian tradition that revels in colorful set pieces...and teaches moral lessons.��The New York Times  The opening sentence of John Irving�s breakout novel The World According to Garp signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. �Garp�s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.� Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing. Her son, Garp, is less beloved, but no less polarizing.  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 subject of sexual hatred�of intolerance of sexual minorities and differences�runs the gamut of �lunacy and sorrow.� Winner of the National Book Award, Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries�with more than ten million copies in print�Garp is the precursor of John Irving�s later protest novels.… (more)