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The World According to Garp

By: John Irving
Narrated by: Adam Sims
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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author.

A worldwide best seller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time.

Beautifully written, The World According to Garp is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.

©2020 John Irving (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction
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"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking...terrific." (Washington Post)

"A diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight...As approachable as it is brilliant." (Cosmopolitan)

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Readers be aware this is a raw but compassionate look at life situations.

Wonderful we’ll written book very relevant to today’s society you really need to have an understanding than just looking at superficial life.Hopefully this will give readers a glimpse of what really goes on in the world at large

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Narrator is not suited to this book in my opinion

I have read the book and was looking forward to the Audio copy but struggled to listen to the forced tone of the narrator.

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