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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 10/05/2012
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ISBN: 9781448111947
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Length: 608 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also 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. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 10/05/2012
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ISBN: 9781448111947
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Length: 608 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Absolutely extraordinary...a roller-coaster ride that leaves one breathless, exhausted, elated and tearful"
Los Angeles Times
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"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. You know it is true. It is also terrific"
The Washington Post
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"Like all great works of art, Irving's novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight...As approachable as it is brilliant, Garp pulses with vital energy"
Cosmopolitan
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"Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis"
Chicago Sun Times
