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I've lately been paying attention to opening lines, and two of my favourites are: Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.

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How does Garp's "writing" voice compare to our perception of him as a character?

The World According to Garp by John Irving: Questions 1978

Helen agreed that Garp's collision with his own mortality brought him back to his craft.

The World According to Garp by John Irving: Questions 1978

Garp's vehemence against "political true believers" is a major force of the novel and he maintains that they are the sworn enemy of the artist.

The World According to Garp by John Irving: Questions 1978

Garp's mother Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.

Excerpt: The World According to Garp by John Irving 1978

Jenny's father is the wealthy owner of a shoe sider who is granted access to Garp's papers.

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Irving has some sharp com - Sources ments on reviewers who took for autobiography in fiction, and the quarrels of Garp's biographers af - Bernstein, Richard, "John Irving: 19th-Century Novelist for ter his death ought to make one pause, but they These Times," in New York Times, April 25,

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Wolf dies of cancer be - the book. fore he can see Garp's biography in print.

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Duncan loses his right eye when his head is ing his recovery and John Wolf, his editor, recom - impaled on the knobless stick shift of Garp's mends that he leave the country before the book's Volvo.

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