with a new Afterword from the author

The New York Times bestseller

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny

Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times.  This is the life and death

of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual

extremes--even of sexual assassinations.  It is a novel rich with "lunacy

and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a

comedy both ribald and robust.  In more than thirty languages, in more than

forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--this novel

provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line:

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

--The Washington Post

"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

From the Trade Paperback edition.

This is the life and times of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries — with more than ten million copies in print — this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases".

Mr. Irving is married and has three sons; he lives in Vermont and in Toronto.

From the Trade Paperback edition.