{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-garp-isbn-9780593186879","title":"The World According to Garp","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Wonderful . . . full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePowerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e is John Irving’s breakout novel. The precursor of Irving’s later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing—and of her son, Garp, less beloved but no less polarizing.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line—“we are all terminal cases”—\u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e maintains a breakneck pace. The subject of sexual hatred and violence—of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences—runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. Available in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—\u003ci\u003eGarp\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedy with forebodings of doom.\u003cb\u003ePraise for John Irving and \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and—above all—the concept of delineated sexual roles . . . Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A large talent announces itself on practically every page.” —The Book of the Month Club News\u003cb\u003eJOHN IRVING, \u003c\/b\u003eborn in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eSetting Free the Bears, \u003c\/i\u003ewhen he was twenty-six. His most popular novel, worldwide, is \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for Owen Meany, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 1989. In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for \u003ci\u003eThe Cider House Rules.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for \u003ci\u003eIn One Person. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mr. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving lives in Toronto.","brand":"Dutton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302442225893,"sku":"NP9780593186879","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593186879.jpg?v=1767742309","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-world-according-to-garp-isbn-9780593186879","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}