The world according to Garp
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Author
Published
New York : Modern Library, 1998.
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 688 pages ; 20 cm.
Status
Kimball Library
FIC IRV
1 available
FIC IRV
1 available
Plaistow Public Library
FIC IRV
1 available
FIC IRV
1 available
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Kimball Library | FIC IRV | Available in Coop |
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Published
New York : Modern Library, 1998.
Format
Books
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.7, 33 Points
Level 6.7, 33 Points
Notes
Description
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 in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.
----"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . 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. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone."
----This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Irving, J. (1998). The world according to Garp (Modern Library ed.). Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-. 1998. The World According to Garp. Modern Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-. The World According to Garp Modern Library, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Irving, John. The World According to Garp Modern Library ed., Modern Library, 1998.
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