The World According to Garp: A NovelThis 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." |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 28 |
Section 3 | 56 |
Section 4 | 74 |
Section 5 | 95 |
Section 6 | 129 |
Section 7 | 149 |
Section 8 | 175 |
Section 13 | 275 |
Section 14 | 306 |
Section 15 | 328 |
Section 16 | 362 |
Section 17 | 401 |
Section 18 | 430 |
Section 19 | 468 |
Section 20 | 505 |
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