The National Book Award-winning THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP established John Irving's writing career. Garp's life - adapted into a 1984 Oscar-nominated film starring Robin Williams and Glenn Close. Inscribed first edition of this epic and intimate, humorous and tragic story of writer T. 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).Ĭondition: Fine in about-fine jacket. "There is something of Byron about John Irving. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life of T.S. 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 warm inscription linking Irving's second and fourth novel, theÂlatter proving to be hisÂbreakthrough work. InscribedÂby the author on the half-title page in a contemporary hand, "For John another world according to a water-method man, John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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