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The World According To GarpThe World According to Garp is a novel by John Irving. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for years; Irving has subsequently become one of the most "bankable" modern American novelists. The story deals with Garp, the son of a ball-turret gunner who was effectively reduced to a mental vegetable by a piece of shrapnel which pierced his head; his mother, Jenny Fields, is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband (and has no interest in sex except as a means to the end of having a child), and so uses the bedridden Technical Sergeant Garp to impregnate herself. Her parents are both wealthy and shocked; Garp's mother raises Garp without their support, taking a position at a boys' school. She becomes a well-known feminist speaker after publishing an auto-biography called A Sexual Suspect (referring to the general assessment of her as an unwed mother). Meanwhile Garp becomes interested in wrestling, sex, and writing: three topics which his mother seems to have a rudimentary and unemotional interest in. The book contains some elements that appear in almost all John Irving novels: bears, wrestling, Vienna and a complex Dickensian plot that spans the protagonist's whole life. The novel was adapted by Steve Tesich into a screenplay for a 1982 movie directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams as Garp. Glenn Close played Fields, and John Lithgow was featured as Roberta Muldoon, a transsexual former football player. External links World According to Garp, The World According to Garp, The World According to Garp, The World According to Garp, The World According to Garp, The
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