The World According to Garp: A Novel (Modern Library) [Hardcover] Irving, John

Irving, John

ISBN 10: 0679603069 / ISBN 13: 9780679603061

Published by Modern Library, 1998

About this Item

original 1978 Dutton hard cover - 1st edition 5th printing - signed by Irving on front end paper - minor wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to page edge - owner's name inside cover - binding out of square - minor wear to cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World According to Garp: A Novel (Modern Library) [Hardcover] Irving, John
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679603069
• ISBN 13: 9780679603061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed

About this title

Synopsis

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis.

----"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone."

----This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.

The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editons of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

About the Author

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules—a film with seven Academy Award nominations.