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The World According to Garp

John Irving

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1978
Pages
Pages 610

A boy conceived by his nurse mother without a husband grows into a writer building a careful, safe life, but sexual violence keeps finding his family anyway, and a zealot devoted to his mother's feminism finally kills him.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
The World According to Garp, John Irving

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