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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." 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.
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Garp und wie er die Welt sah, John Irving
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- Released
- 1998
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- Language
- German
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Rowohlt
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 643
- ISBN10
- 3499225042
- ISBN13
- 9783499225048
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, USA, Relationships, American Literature, Death, Gifts for women, Realistic Fiction, Life, Feminism, Sexuality & Intimacy, Adapted for Film, America, Family relationships, Vienna, Writers, Infidelity, Quirky, Single Parents, Marital Crisis, Classicism
- First published
- 1978
- Original title
- The World According to Garp
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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." 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.