The World According to Garp
by John Irving · 1978
Literary Fiction · ranked #186 in category
T.S. Garp, the illegitimate son of a feminist icon who never wanted a husband, grows up in New England schools, becomes a novelist, and navigates a life of extraordinary personal loss. Irving's breakthrough novel is about accidents, violence, family and the bizarre randomness of fate — and it established the large, comic, tragic American novel as Irving's form.
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