![]() ![]() Garp is the son of a self-sufficient nurse who, in her own words, wanted a job and wanted to live alone. Bensenhaver is, in fact, a sort of parody of Garp, just as Garp himself seems in part a parody of John Irving, a complex relationship but clearly not a correspondence. Garp, author most recently of The World According to Bensenhaver, and an exploration of the relationship between Garp's art and his life, both of which carry a heavy burden of catastrophe. The novel takes the form of a sprawling Nabokovian commentary on the life of novelist T.S. WHAT OUGHT TO be said first about The World According to Garp is that it's a wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and horrifying and heartbreaking - an X-rated soap opera with grandeur - and immeasurably gratifying. By William McPherson William McPherson is the editor of Book World. ![]()
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