Author John Irving reflects on the book that made him famous, The World According to Garp, 40 years after its release. It's a sharp, funny story about sex, the feminist movement, wrestling and ...

Actor John Lithgow, whose breakthrough role was in the movie “The World According to Garp,” came to Richmond ... best-selling children’s picture books, including “Mahalia Mouse Goes ...

Four decades later, The World According to Garp remains one of Irving's most masterful books. Following the life of its titular character T. S. Garp, Irving's comic novel is full of idiosyncratic ...

The World According to Garp, quickly became a bestseller, shocking and titillating readers at the same time. Here’s what some of the most-read critics had to say about the book when it first ...

Published in 1978 it went on to win the US National Book Award and was made into a film in 1982. Stars Lee Ingleby (DS John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently) as Garp and Miranda Richardson (Mapp ...

When I was twelve or thirteen, I stole my first copy of John Irving’s The World According to ... the film version of the book, which starred Robin Williams as TS Garp. When I saw the paperback ...