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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...
...depth profile of the man who created Garp, Sheppard began back in May to interview the author and his family, friends and associates. Besides making two trips to Irving's home in Putney, Vt., he tracked his subject in such settings as an American Booksellers Association convention in Atlanta, where he joined Irving for a session of jogging and exercise in a hotel health club. Visiting the set of the film version of Garp in Millbrook, N.Y., he watched Irving coach Actor Robin Williams on the finer points of wrestling-but prudently did not participate. "Whether the subject...
...Garp Creator John Irving strikes again The pieces of the dream machine are in place. Scaffolding has been erected against a brick building for a shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie...
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...