To say The World According to Garp is interesting would be a gargantuan understatement. Irving’s literary fiction book is alluring, compelling, and darkly whimsical. It starts off with a character by the name of Jenny Fields. A devoutly single woman, she finds herself in a movie theater being groped by a random man. Her reaction: slice his arm open with a scalpel she keeps in her purse. When the police come, she solidly states that she is a nurse, and she would have killed him had she wanted to. Fields is released upon learning that the man is a husband and father. The story goes on to explain Technical Sergeant Garp, the father of the protagonist, T.S. Garp. Jenny met senior Garp after he was hospitalized for traumatic wounds sustained as
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To get even, she suggests an affair with the wife of the teacher. This pattern continues for an extended period of time. Garp moved his family back to his alma mater after his mother's death, and decides to become the wrestling coach. Garp and Helen live there and raise the kids for many years, until Garp is assassinated by one devout follower of the particular group of women.
I can honestly say that I loved Irving’s The World According to Garp. Although a long-winded book, slightly similar to Romanticism writings, it was a blast to read. For anyone who likes weird, whimsical, and delightfully dark-humored books, this is the one for you. Delightful in that it seems the author wants you to celebrate life, not analyze it. Irving deserves the many wonderful reviews he has received for this book, and the National Book Award.
The World According to Garp, Irving’s fourth, is a masterpiece of literary fiction. John Irving hails from New Hampshire, born in 1942. Being a collegiate, competitive, and coach of wrestling inspires many characters in his novel. Irving travelled to Vienna, went to college at New Hampshire and Iowa, taught, and lived to write. Irving’s work is almost all fiction, but none of it is nearly as inspired and creative as The World According to Garp. Many other fiction books pale in comparison when regarding the creativity, yet the realness of this
To get even, she suggests an affair with the wife of the teacher. This pattern continues for an extended period of time. Garp moved his family back to his alma mater after his mother's death, and decides to become the wrestling coach. Garp and Helen live there and raise the kids for many years, until Garp is assassinated by one devout follower of the particular group of women.
I can honestly say that I loved Irving’s The World According to Garp. Although a long-winded book, slightly similar to Romanticism writings, it was a blast to read. For anyone who likes weird, whimsical, and delightfully dark-humored books, this is the one for you. Delightful in that it seems the author wants you to celebrate life, not analyze it. Irving deserves the many wonderful reviews he has received for this book, and the National Book Award.
The World According to Garp, Irving’s fourth, is a masterpiece of literary fiction. John Irving hails from New Hampshire, born in 1942. Being a collegiate, competitive, and coach of wrestling inspires many characters in his novel. Irving travelled to Vienna, went to college at New Hampshire and Iowa, taught, and lived to write. Irving’s work is almost all fiction, but none of it is nearly as inspired and creative as The World According to Garp. Many other fiction books pale in comparison when regarding the creativity, yet the realness of this