Jenny nurses Garp, observing his infantile state and almost perpetual autonomic sexual arousal. She encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp, who was severely brain damaged in combat. His mother, Jenny Fields, is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband. Īccording to the byline of a self-penned, 20 February 2017 essay for The Hollywood Reporter, Irving completed his teleplay for the five-part series based on The World According to Garp. He described the project as being in the early stages. On 3 November 2015, Irving revealed that he'd been approached by HBO and Warner Brothers to reconstruct The World According to Garp as a miniseries. The production was directed by Nadia Molinari and featured Miranda Richardson as Jenny, Lee Ingleby as Garp, Jonathan Keeble as Roberta and Lyndsey Marshal as Helen. Ī movie adaptation of the novel starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich.īBC Radio 4's Classic Serial broadcast a three-part adaptation of the novel by Linda Marshall Griffiths in January 2014. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979, and its first paperback edition won the Award the following year. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years. The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel, about a man, born out of wedlock to a feminist leader, who grows up to be a writer.
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