Word: garp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irving has made numerous appearances recently, in print and on television, but yesterday marked his first public return to Cambridge, where he lives when he's not writing and wrestling in Putney, Vt. Irving first received widespread attention for his 1978 bestseller, "The World According to Garp...
...Garp Mania...
...large crowd warmly welcomed his return, armed not only with fresh copies of his latest book, but also with hard- and soft-cover editions of "Garp," his three other books, and copies of an August issue of Time magazine featuring Irving on the cover...
...Walt and removes Michael Milton's penis, by Roberta Muldoon, the transsexual football player, and the Ellen Jamesians, the radical feminist group whose members cut out their tongues to protest rape. Among those with reservations was the author's mother. Says Frances Irving: "There are parts of Garp that are too explicit for me." Literary heroes like T.S. Garp and John Berry of Hotel New Hampshire challenge social dogmas and traditional sexual roles. Although they sleep with women and could flatten most opponents, Garp and Berry are mother-men. They nurture and protect an extended family of offspring...
...Garp...