The World According to Garp by John Irving [FIRST EDITION] 1978 • Dutton

The World According to Garp by John Irving

FIRST EDITION [1978] HENRY ROBBINS • E.P. DUTTON

5th Printing / 1978.  Hardcover with dust jacket in nice reading condition. 

Book itself is in great shape; clean boards, tightly bound. Reads perfectly with some inevitable tanning to pages.  Hand written shop price or code on front endpaper.

Dust jacket has visible wear and tear; mostly to upper rear and bubbling to laminate in several spots.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

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.