商品簡介
The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving--a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author.
"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking."--The Washington Post
The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication 40 years ago, Irving's classic deserves to be introduced to a whole new generation of readers.
The World According to Garp is filled with stories inside stories about 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 world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
作者簡介
John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O.Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the national Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
