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23 de jun. de 2024 · The World According to Garp has been heralded as a literary masterpiece while at the same time enjoying phenomenal commercial success--a rare feat for a novel. What are the elements of high literary merit in the novel?
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.
12 de jun. de 2024 · National Book Award for Fiction: In 1980, "The World According to Garp" won the National Book Award for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the United States. This recognition helped solidify its place in American literature.
11 de jun. de 2024 · John Irving (born March 2, 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.) is an American novelist and short-story writer who established his reputation with the novel The World According to Garp (1978; film 1982).
11 de jun. de 2024 · The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."
15 de jun. de 2024 · THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, BY JOHN IRVING, CH. 1: BOSTON MERCY (NOT THE COMPLETE FIRST CHAPTER) Garp’s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
21 de jun. de 2024 · 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.
