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      The World According to Garp

      by John Irving
      Published
      May 1978
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      Millions have entered Garp's world . . . And loved it!

      Journey through four generations, across two continents with the astonishing family of T.S. Garp —the famous bastard son of a belligerent mother — who loves, lusts, labors, and triumphs in a world of assassins, wrestlers, rapists, feminist fanatics, transsexual football players, tantalizing teen-age babysitters, adoring children, and a wayward wife.

      His life is comic, tragic, violent, tender. His world is totally outrageous. And as real as your own.

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