Un Enfant De La Balle

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. 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.

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