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...kind of fiction that is disappearing - the non-friction novel that gives off no sparks, that is selfconscious, competent, tedious. But the rest of the list has unprecedented vitality and variety. If you can get Judith Krantz's Scruples and John Irving's The World According to Garp on the same bestseller list, you have a thriving democratic literature. " It is a literature that will always experience depressions as well as rallies. But for now, most publishers of novels and stories are bullish on fiction. As this autumn gathering proves, they have at least 11 good reasons...
...World According to Garp is mostly about the true final frontier--human sexuality, the hysteria and madness and cool fun and hot passions therein...
...least the madness and the hot passions. It's a violent book, almost to the point of being gory. Among the "selections" from Garp's work included in the book is "The World According to Bensenhaver," in which a woman stabs to death the idiot farm boy who rapes her. One of the most horrifying (and at the same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams...
...least the cool fun. Garp's trusted friend is the transsexual Roberta Muldoon, formerly Old Number 88; the crack-backing, pass-catching Robert Muldoon, star tight-end for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Roberta finally dies, there is a moment of silence before the Eagles take the field. "She had a great pair of hands," the announcer intones reverently...
...World According to Garp, John Irving...