Irving, John: *1942
The World According to Garp, 1978 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- The story chronicles around the life of T. S. Garp, who sees himself as a serious writer, and his mother, Jenny, who writes a feminist manifesto.
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- Ending Explained: "Garp’s death symbolizes the arbitrary nature of tragedy and highlights the randomness of events that can alter our lives forever." Why the Book Wins
- Articles
- Books of the Times: "For all its realism, is not a realistic novel. It is a novel about a writer writing novels--or, more precisely, about the way a sensitive human being communicates his response to reality through the stories he makes up." The New York Times; April 13, 1978
- The Novel Was Never Meant to Be This Timeless: "The novel was always a feminist novel, but in the passage of time I’ve become more of a feminist." John Irving; November 21, 2018
- Garp, Forty Years Later: "Garp is still being read, and Garp’s cis son and the trans woman he married still live, and all that love and affection in the book’s pages still live." The Paris Review; August 23, 2019
- Laughing at the Damndest Things: "There we are, numb with shock and sick with concern, and suddenly we are laughing. And not feeling all that guilty about doing so either." Literary Hub; May 2, 2017