Word: garp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...review of The World According to Garp, Senior Writer R.Z. Sheppard declared that John Irving had moved into "the front rank of America's young novelists." Now, with the arrival of Irving's eagerly awaited new novel, The Hotel New Hampshire, Sheppard's assessment rings more true than ever. "Every once in a while there's a writer of real quality who also appeals to the popular reader," says Sheppard. "Irving is one." No newcomer to the risky but rewarding task of spotting literary talent, Sheppard worked as an editor and reviewer for the book section...
Simon & Schuster President Richard Snyder takes a more pragmatic view: "At least they're reading. Some of them may graduate to The World According to Garp. "Then again, that may be the most romantic fiction of them...
American fiction in 1978 rang with two strong young voices: John Irving's in The World According to Garp and Mary Gordon's in her first novel, Final Payments. Both books dealt with the unavoidable responsibilities and equally unavoidable satisfactions of family, though the world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted...
...World According to Garp by John Irving: an explosive tragicomedy about feminism and fatherly love...