List $44.95

Written by John Irving - Audio book performed by Michael Prichard

Unabridged Fiction - 12 CASSETTES - 20 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (1998)

Includes a new introduction written and read by John Irving

"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

"A great novel . . . Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come." --Chicago Tribune

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T.S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields -- a feminist leader ahead of her time. The novel provides almost cheerful, ever hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

"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

"A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking . . ." --The Washington Post

About the Author John Irving is the bestselling author of nine novels, including A Son of the Circus, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, The Hotel New Hampshire, and A Widow for One Year