Book description
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." John Irving
published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been
nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980,
for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry
Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he 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. In
2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His
most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
