'He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit.' 'Garp was a natural storyteller,' says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

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His world is really the world according to nearly everyone.' Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege.' Time magazine commented: 'Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly-something close to joyful malice-perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. 'Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. 'Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it,' said critic Terrence Des Pres. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies

Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her time. Since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. 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.

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