“If you want to understand the phenomenon that is John Irving, come drink from the well of “Garp.” Here’s where he established before the reading public his unique voice, his artistic stance, his immense heart, his indelible quirks. Among the joys and sorrows to be found within are (in no particular order) Nurse Jenny Fields, lust, Roberta Muldoon, prep school, bears, accidental castration, ritual mutilation, Vienna, radical feminism, rape, assassination, children in peril, the undertoad,...”

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