Word: garp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kalki, Gore Vidal ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
FICTION: The World According to Garp, John Irving ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ The Human Factor, Graham Greene ∙ Another I, Another You, Richard Schickel Kalki, Gore Vidal
...Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...novel is strategically seeded with role reversals. Garp, raised on the campus of a New England boys' school where his mother is head nurse, exhibits strong maternal instincts. When his wife decides to have an affair, she behaves with all the distracting caution of the philandering commuter. The most striking sexual suspect is Roberta Muldoon, formerly Robert, a transsexual who once played tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles. She is Garp's closest friend and squash partner...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles Final Payments, Mary Gordon The Human Factor, Graham Greene The World According to Garp, John Irving