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- 2012
- year of publication
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- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- transworld_digital
- ISBN-13
- 978-14-4811-194-7
- EAN
- 9781448111947
- Publication date
- 2012-05-10
- Book
- The World According To Garp · 5 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
