John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules—a film with seven Academy Award nominations.
“The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man
in our generation . . . Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies
synopsis. . . . A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a
serious artist of remarkable powers.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving’s blend
of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . .
Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast
talent.”—The New Republic
“A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and
horrifying and heartbreaking.”—Washington Post
"The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man
in our generation . . . Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies
synopsis. . . . A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a
serious artist of remarkable powers."-Chicago Sun-Times
"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving's blend
of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . .
Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast
talent."-The New Republic
"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny
and horrifying and heartbreaking."-Washington Post
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