The World According To Garp
$26.74
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2019
Summary
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.
‘A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking…terrific’ — WASHINGTON POST
Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author.
A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving’s classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474614405 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147461440X |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 377g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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Absolutely extraordinary…a roller-coaster ride that leaves one breathless, exhausted, elated and tearful - LA TIMES
A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. You know it is true. It is also terrific - WASHINGTON POSTA 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 TRIBUNENothing in contemporary fiction matches it … Irving’s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous … Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent - NEW REPUBLICA social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22 - OBSERVERAbout The Author
John Irving
John Irving, the novelist and screenwriter, competed as a wrestler for twenty years. He was Kurt Vonnegut’s student in the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, where Mr. Irving later taught. In 1980, he won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules, which also won a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood-in recognition of exceptional achievement in the area of reproductive rights. In 2012 and 2013, Mr. Irving won two Lambda Literary Awards: for Bisexual Fiction, for In One Person; also a Bridge Builder Award, for writing empathetically about the LGBTQ community. His novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.
John Irving lives in Toronto. He is at work on a fifteenth novel-a ghost story, titled Darkness as a Bride-and he’s in the process of adapting The World According to Garp as a television miniseries.
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