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A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] directed by Creator/GeorgeRoyHill, who wrote the screenplay adaptation along with Steve Tesich, was released in 1982. It stars Creator/RobinWilliams as Garp, along with Mary Beth Hurt, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/HumeCronyn, and Creator/JessicaTandy.

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A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] directed by Creator/GeorgeRoyHill, who wrote the screenplay adaptation along with Steve Tesich, was released in 1982. It stars Creator/RobinWilliams as Garp, along with Mary Beth Hurt, Creator/MaryBethHurt, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/HumeCronyn, and Creator/JessicaTandy.
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* StrawFeminist: ZigZagged. Irving explores feminism from a man's perspective, between Jenny's role as an "icon" to the Ellen Jamesians to his friendship with transsexual Roberta Muldoon.

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* StrawFeminist: ZigZagged. Irving explores feminism from a man's perspective, between Jenny's role as an "icon" to the Ellen Jamesians to his friendship with transsexual trans woman Roberta Muldoon.
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Creator/JohnIrving’s fourth novel, published in 1978, ''The World According to Garp'' was a bestseller for several years. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Awards for Fiction in 1979 and its first paperback edition won the Award the following year. Written in the style of a biography, it chronicles the quirky life and times of author, husband, and father T.S. Garp from his unusual conception to his tragic early death.

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Creator/JohnIrving’s fourth novel, published in 1978, ''The World According to Garp'' was a bestseller for several years. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Awards for Fiction in 1979 and its first paperback edition won the Award the following year. Written in the style of a biography, it chronicles the quirky life and times of author, husband, and father T.S. Garp from his unusual conception to his tragic early death.
death. The book was a finalist for the National Book Awards for Fiction in 1979 and its first paperback edition won the Award the following year. Its success permitted Irving to quit his day job and become a full-time novelist.

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