The World According to Garp

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Product Details

Price
$20.00  $18.60
Publisher
Dutton
Publish Date
Pages
544
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 1.3 inches | 1.01 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780593186879
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About the Author

JOHN IRVING, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, when he was twenty-six. His most popular novel, worldwide, is A Prayer for Owen Meany, published in 1989. In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for In One Person. In 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mr. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving lives in Toronto.

Reviews

Praise for John Irving and The World According to Garp

"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist." --Los Angeles Times

"A 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 Tribune

"A social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22." --The Observer (London)

"A large talent announces itself on practically every page." --The Book of the Month Club News