The world according to Garp /
Irving, John
The world according to Garp / John Irving - 2010 ed. - London : Black Swan , 2010. - 603 p. : ; 21 cm.
Oorspr. uitg.: London : Gollancz, 1978.
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also 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. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
9780552992053 0552992054 0525237704
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Women--United States--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
bIR72w 2010
The world according to Garp / John Irving - 2010 ed. - London : Black Swan , 2010. - 603 p. : ; 21 cm.
Oorspr. uitg.: London : Gollancz, 1978.
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also 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. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
9780552992053 0552992054 0525237704
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Women--United States--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
bIR72w 2010