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The World According to Garp
by IRVING, JOHN
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printing of Irving's fourth novel. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with only the slightest wear on top/Fine
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing of Irving's fourth novel. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with only the slightest wear on top and tail of spine - essentially as new. Rich blue and mustard cloth and maroon boards. Author's signature on a laid in card. Jacket design by Leo Manso. 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 of T.S. Garp, novelist and son of Jenny Fields. "There is something of Byron about John Irving. Not only is it that he woke after the publication of The World According To Garp to find himself famous, but the extremity of his opinions and the nervous violence of his language recall that intemperate noleman, and like Byron, he would certainly say that love is no sinecure." (Robertson Davies). A lovely copy of this Irving classic!
Synopsis
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. A Prayer for Owen Meany was published in 1989. 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reviews
On Sep 26 2007, Shawnee said:
This is the best book I have ever read!! If you want a story about the 70's this is one, full of symoblism and underlying truths and tragedy. The "undertoad" You may not always see it but its always there, and we all have those "undertoads" in our life. This book is full complete, from beginning to end, the end will not leave you questioning "what was Irving thinking?" He completed this book and didn't shirk on the details, its phenomonal!
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- Grinning Cat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26802
- Title
- The World According to Garp
- Author
- IRVING, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printing of Irving's fourth novel. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with only the slightest wear on top
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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