The World Through Garp's Eyes
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The World Through Garp's Eyes
14.99 €
A tragicomic saga from the famous author of The Hotel New Hampshire and The Cider House Rules, Men of None of Her Life and Last Night at Winding River, Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany, a panoramic burlesque similar in scope to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five or Joseph Heller's Catch-22. It was The World According to Garp that made Irving a modern classic; the novel was awarded the National Book Foundation Award, was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and, according to persistent rumors, was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize (the Pulitzer shortlists began to be announced exactly the following year).
The World According to Garp is a modern saga about a family living in our merciless world, whose members try, each in their own way and with varying success, to find harmony. The novel's protagonist is a writer who is scandalously famous for both his books and the circumstances of his birth; his works, realistic and absurd, are woven into the fabric of the novel. The author himself most accurately defined the attitude of future readers to the book: "It may sometimes make even the most gloomy type smile, but it will break many an overly tender heart."
The World According to Garp is a modern saga about a family living in our merciless world, whose members try, each in their own way and with varying success, to find harmony. The novel's protagonist is a writer who is scandalously famous for both his books and the circumstances of his birth; his works, realistic and absurd, are woven into the fabric of the novel. The author himself most accurately defined the attitude of future readers to the book: "It may sometimes make even the most gloomy type smile, but it will break many an overly tender heart."
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Novel