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The World According to Garp
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John Irving
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bookthrift Co
Publication date
May 1, 1984
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780671069162
ISBN-10
0671069160
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Publisher Out of Business
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$4.98
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
T. S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people including teachers, whores, and radicals
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: “How can anyone identify a dream of the future?†The answer: “Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love."
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand– that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy.
This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels – including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year – or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules.
The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.
From the Hardcover edition.
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband’s left hand– that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy.
This is how John Irving’s tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving’s previous novels – including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year – or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules.
The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving’s seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author’s recurring themes – loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Modern Library (May 1, 1998)
9780679603061 | details & prices | 688 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 1.75 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $24.00
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Reprint edition from Bookthrift Co (May 1, 1984)
Paperback
from Gardners Books (September 1, 2010); titled "World According to Garp"
9780552776783 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.75 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $15.20
from Random House of Canada Ltd (November 30, 2000)
9780676973822 | details & prices | 437 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $22.00
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (May 1, 1997)
9780345418012 | details & prices | 437 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $17.00
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Reissue edition from Ballantine Books (August 1, 1994)
from Pocket Books (June 1, 1985); titled "World According to Garp"
9780671523695 | details & prices | List price $5.00
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CD/Spoken Word
With Michael Prichard (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (July 12, 2005)
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Michael Prichard (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (June 1, 1998)
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (April 9, 2009)
9781439570579 | details & prices | List price $16.99
from Turtleback Books (March 1, 2001)
Reprint edition from Turtleback Books (June 1, 1997); titled "World According to Garp"
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