The World According to Garp

The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving--a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.

＂A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking.＂--The Washington Post

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 40 years ago, Irving’s classic deserves to be introduced to a whole new generation of readers.

The World According to Garp is filled with stories inside stories about 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.＂