by John Irving · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552992053
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«The World According to Garp» is John Irving's coming-of-age novel, published by Black Swan in paperback (608 pages, in English).
The novel narrates the life of T. S. Garp, son of Jenny Fields, a woman turned into a symbol of feminism. Between humor and tragedy, it portrays a world crossed by sexuality, violence and death, and culminates in the famous idea that in the world according to Garp we are all terminal cases.
Winner of the National Book Award in 1980 and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978. The paperback edition includes 608 pages.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction, as well as for book clubs seeking a story with humor and drama.
John Winslow Irving is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
