"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. .. Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent." --The New Republic

"The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation... Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers." --Chicago Sun-Times

This is the life of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

Boston Mercy

Blood and Blue

What He Wanted to Be When He Grew Up

Graduation

In the City Where Marcus Aurelius Died

The Pension Grillparzer

More Lust

Second Children, Second

Novels, Second Love

The Eternal Husband

The Dog in the Alley, the Child in the Sky

Mrs. Ralph

It Happens to Helen

Walt Catches Cold

The World According to Marcus Aurelius

The World According to Bensenhaver

The First Assassin

TheFirst Feminist Funeral,

and Other Funerals

Habits of the Under Toad

Life After Garp

Afterword---Twenty Years Ago