Author of A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY

'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking... You know THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP is true. It is also terrific.'
The Washington Post

This is the life and times of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. 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.'

'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 book of the year... 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