Word: garp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where we are is John Irving's The World According to Garp, a world where "an evening could be hilarious and the next morning could be murderous...
...book is a biography of the noted author T.S. Garp, from his conception in the hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...World According to Garp, Irving...
...World According to Garp, Irving...
...World According to Garp, John Irving