Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. In 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for In One Person. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. His most popular novel, worldwide, is A Prayer for Owen Meany, published in 1989. The Book of the Month Club News About the Author JOHN IRVING, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, when he was twenty-six. The Observer (London) A large talent announces itself on practically every page. Chicago Tribune A social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22. Irvings characters will stay alive for years to come. Los Angeles Times A brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and-above all-the concept of delineated sexual roles. Review Quotes Praise for John Irving and The World According to Garp John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist. Available in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom. The subject of sexual hatred and violence-of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences-runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line-we are all terminal cases-The World According to Garp maintains a breakneck pace. The precursor of Irvings later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who bes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing-and of her son, Garp, less beloved but no less polarizing. Washington Post Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irvings breakout novel. full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking. Book Synopsis Winner of the National Book Award Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. Available in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print- Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom.-Provided by publisher.
From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line-we are all terminal cases- The World According to Garp maintains a breakneck pace. About the Book Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irvings breakout novel.
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