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Last Night in Twisted River
Until I Find You
The Fourth Hand
My Movie Business
A Widow for One Year
The Imaginary Girlfriend
A Son of the Circus
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Cider House Rules
The Hotel New Hampshire
The World According to Garp
The 158 Pound Marriage
The Water-Method Man
Setting Free the Bears

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The World According to Garp

“The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation . . . Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. . . . A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

     
 

 

“Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving’s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent.”

—The New Republic

     
 

 

“A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking.”

—Washington Post

The World According to Garp
New York Times Bestseller

“Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it.”
The New Republic

A worldwide bestseller since publication in 1978

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