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Description
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 ...
First Sentence
She was nothing of the kind.
Table of Contents
1. Boston Mercy
2. Blood and Blue
3. What He Wanted to Be When He Grew Up
4. Graduation
5. In the City Where Marcus Aurelius Died
6. The Pension Grillparzer
7. More Lust
8. Second Children, Second Novels, Second Love
9. The Eternal Husband
10. The Dog in the Alley, The Child in the Sky
11. Mrs. Ralph
12. It Happens to Helen
13. Walt Catches Cold
14. The World According to Marcus Aurelius
15. The World According to Bensenhaver
16. The First Assassin
17. The First Feminist Funeral, and Other Funerals
18. Habits of the Under Toad
19. Life After Garp
Authors & Contributors
- John Irving (Author)
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