# The World According To Garp

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- Book: [The World According To Garp](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-world-according-to-garp) ([The World According To Garp.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-world-according-to-garp.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving), [Adam Sims](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-sims)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-194-7
- Published: 2012-05-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.