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The World According to Garp

A Novel

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Winner of the National Book Award

Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. The New Republic


Wonderful . . . full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking. Washington Post


Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving s breakout novel. The precursor of Irving s later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing and of her son, Garp, 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 and violence of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. Available in more than forty countries with more than ten million copies in print Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
06. September 2021
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
544
Autor/Autorin
John Irving
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
432 g
Größe (L/B/H)
205/135/29 mm
ISBN
9780593186879

Portrait

John Irving

JOHN IRVING, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, when he was twenty-six. His most popular novel, worldwide, is A Prayer for Owen Meany, published in 1989. In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for In One Person. In 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mr. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving lives in Toronto.

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Praise for John Irving and The World According to Garp

John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist. Los Angeles Times

A brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and above all the concept of delineated sexual roles . . . Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come. Chicago Tribune

A social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22. The Observer (London)

A large talent announces itself on practically every page. The Book of the Month Club News

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