On the most elementary level, I kept reading to find out what would happen next and when it had all finally happened I didn’t want it to stop. “You know The World According to Garp is true. They way he filters them through his hero’s unique imagination, we not only laugh at the world according to Garp, but we also accept it and love it.”Ĭhristopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, April 13, 1978 At least these things oughtn’t to be funny. Nor is the “First Feminist Funeral,” held for Garp’s mother after she has been assassinated by a crazed anti-feminist deer hunter, which funeral Garp attends in drag because no men are to be admitted, and then gets mugged at when he is recognized by the younger sister of a former girl friend.
Nor, for that matter, is a former tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles named Roberta Muldoon who has given up professional football to become a transsexual. Nor are brain damage and automobile collisions. Rape and mutilation aren’t the least bit funny. But John Irving’s fourth novel is something more than high-camp entertainment it’s a skilfully crafted black comedy that confirms the 36-year-old American author’s reputation as one of the best young novelists writing today.” “This, surely, is the stuff of pulp fiction, in which improbably characters and highly spiced incidents jostle for attention. Here’s what some of the most-read critics had to say about the book when it first came out in the spring of 1978. "A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking.John Irving’s fourth novel, The World According to Garp, quickly became a bestseller, shocking and titillating readers at the same time. Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise a work of vast talent."- The New Republic
Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. "Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers."- Chicago Sun-Times Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. "The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation. " A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking. Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise a work of vast talent. Irving s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. A marvelous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers. The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation. Brilliant, funny, andĬonsistently wise a work of vast talent." "A wonderful novel, full of energy and art."
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