![]() Garp is an intricately plotted novel, and its themes are universal: love, sex, death, art, gender roles. ![]() Irving's novel was especially popular on college campuses across the nation because of its youthful energy, and the novelist was applauded for creating realistic and strong female characters. His life is both hilarious and ultimately tragic. Garp struggles vainly to protect the people he loves. His best friend is a transsexual who was formerly a tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles. Garp's world is filled with "lunacy and sorrow." His mother is a radically independent nurse who conceives him by taking advantage of a brain-damaged soldier. Garp, son of the controversial feminist Jenny Fields. It is the tragicomic life story of author T. ![]() The novel features the memorably eccentric characters, outlandish situations, and moments both joyous and heartbreaking that so many readers cherish. Although John Irving's first three novels were relatively well-received by the critics, he was basically unknown to the general public until The World According to Garp became an international bestseller when it was published in the United States in 1978. ![]()
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