John Irving - The World According to Garp

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This is the life and times of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with ‘lunacy and sorrow’; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries - with more than ten million copies in print - this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: ‘In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases’.