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Uno dei libri più venduti nel mondo, caratterizzato da una vena di pazzia e di tristezza, "Il mondo secondo Garp" è una rassegna di atteggiamenti incongrui e imprevedibili verso il sesso, il matrimonio, la famiglia e il femminismo. Una donna "sessualmente sospetta", la madre di Garp, diviene bersaglio di un pazzo che odia le donne e che la ucciderà; Garp, a sua volta, diviene bersaglio delle femministe radicali e sarà vittima di una pazza che odia gli uomini. Un libro ironico e insieme drammatico che rivela le contraddizioni dell'America di fronte alle problematiche della liberazione sessuale.
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- Pagine: 510
- Data di uscita: 26-05-1999
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This book is one of my favorites. Because I like it so much, I'm not going to say much, except that it's always worth reading, even if you have read it before. There's a scene in this book it's a revealed that a high-up publisher gives all his manuscripts to his cleaning lady, and she's the one that Leggi tutto
A dry witted, sarcastic masterpiece, the funniest novel Irving wrote and dealing with the creative process, free love, emancipation, and parenthood. A cool fact about Irvings´ writing style is how he mixes epic descriptions with prosaic, short passages and especially hides shocking plot twists in a Leggi tutto
I'd say that "Lolita" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" are the two best written books I've ever read. But if I had to pick my all time favorite book I'd probably go with "The World According to Garp". Irving takes us on the path of T.S. Garp's life from conception to death and I was enthralled ever Leggi tutto
It was not an easy book for me, I read about 30 pages in one sitting, I used to wonder what the hell I was reading here... but I found the desire to return again and again.
Dull, dull, dull. Boring people doing boring things. Even the sex is boring. I've spent some time wondering whether everyone is so boring because it's the world according to Garp, and Garp himself is boring. The novel is cleverly structured (it could be a literary theorist's wet dream); Garp himself Leggi tutto
Indeed there are enough freaks & sufficient eccentricity here to make this a SUPER enjoyable read. It lacks what the only other Irving novel I've read so far, "A Prayer for Owen Meany," has plenty of: principally melancholia. It deviates to a semibiography of a writer, from an incredible birth story Leggi tutto
This broke my heart, then broke my heart a little more every time. Why did I continue? Habit, I guess. It’s damn well written even if not really a dazzling ball of a time. I always read through the pages no matter how upsetting because something better might happen, or something else. I guess in thi Leggi tutto
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