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World According to Garp A Novel

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ISBN-10: 034536676X

ISBN-13: 9780345366764

Edition: 20th 1978 (Revised)

Authors: John Irving

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20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION with a new Afterword from the author The New York Times bestseller This is the life and times of 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…    
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Book details

List price: $8.99
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/3/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 4.20" wide x 6.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Boston Mercy
Blood and Blue
What He Wanted to Be When He Grew Up
Graduation
In the City Where Marcus Aurelius Died
The Pension Grillparzer
More Lust
Second Children, Second Novels, Second Love
The Eternal Husband
The Dog in the Alley, the Child in the Sky
Mrs. Ralph
It Happens to Helen
Walt Catches Cold
The World According to Marcus Aurelius
The World According to Bensenhaver
The First Assassin
The First Feminist Funeral, and Other Funerals
Habits of the Under Toad
Life After Garp
Afterword--Twenty Years Ago