![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise a work of vast talent * NEW REPUBLIC *Īmerican fiction dotes on its plucky rebel kids - those clear-eyed but big-hearted outsiders and vagabonds who from Twain to Salinger, and far beyond, light out for the territory of a hard-won liberty. Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * fascinatingly unique * NEW YORK TIMES *Ī social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22 * OBSERVER *Ī brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and - above all - the concept of delineated sexual roles. The World According to Garp is a huge narrative full of complex emotional rollercoasters typical of a writer's life. a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers * CHICAGO TIMES *Ī wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation. Like all great works of art, Irving's novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight.As approachable as it is brilliant, Garp pulses with vital energy * COSMOPOLITAN * Absolutely extraordinary.a roller-coaster ride that leaves one breathless, exhausted, elated and tearful * LA TIMES * ![]()
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