The World According to Garp (Broché)

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son ; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow" ; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line : "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."