The World According to Garp | 誠品線上

蓋普眼中的世界

內容簡介

內容簡介 New York Times bestseller -- 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author -- "A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking."- The Washington PostThis 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."Praise for The World According to Garp"John Irving, it is abundantly clear, is a true artist." - Los Angeles Times"A brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and - above all - the concept of delineated sexual roles... Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come." - Chicago Tribune"A social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22." - The Observer (London)"A large talent announces itself on practically every page." - The Book-of-the-Month Club News

各界推薦

各界推薦 本書是約翰‧厄文最重要的著作，展現了作者豐富、睿智、幽默、一路讀來不能釋手的寫作功力，讓他因此奠定了文壇地位。約翰‧厄文大玩「書中書」的技法，透過古羅馬皇帝、班森哈維與蓋普三個不同的角色，細膩而真實地鋪陳出生命中的無奈與滄桑，書裡角色雖然充斥苦悶的男女老少，然而全書最後卻在主角蓋普學會放下憤怒與自殘後，透露出成長與學習的希望。

作者介紹

作者介紹 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.

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