The World According to Garp
A Novel
The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.----Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it, said critic Terrence Des Pres. Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and fam…
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-60306-1
- EAN: 9780679603061
- Produktnummer: 19342869
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 720 S.
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John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules-a film with seven Academy Award nominations.
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