{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-garp-9780593186879","title":"The World According to Garp","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Wonderful . . . full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePowerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e is John Irving's breakout novel. The precursor of Irving's later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny, an unmarried nurse who becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing--and of her son, Garp, less beloved but no less polarizing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line--\"we are all terminal cases\"--\u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e maintains a breakneck pace. The subject of sexual hatred and violence--of intolerance of sexual minorities, and sexual differences--runs through the book, as relevant now as ever. Available in more than forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--\u003ci\u003eGarp\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedy with forebodings of doom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN IRVING, \u003c\/b\u003eborn in Exeter, New Hampshire, published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eSetting Free the Bears, \u003c\/i\u003ewhen he was twenty-six. His most popular novel, worldwide, is \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for Owen Meany, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 1989. In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for \u003ci\u003eThe Cider House Rules.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2012, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for \u003ci\u003eIn One Person. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 2018, he was the recipient of a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mr. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598513606930,"sku":"9780593186879","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a8c59f3-28ce-4be4-a6e9-ea1a28c82ca4.jpg?v=1732186468","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-according-to-garp-9780593186879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}