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Procrastination is Irving's Setting Free the Bears The Second Wind of the Cuckold is similar to The 158-Pound Marriage.

Most of the books written by Garp echo Irving's previous novels.

Young Irving also bears a strong physical resemblance to the fictional Garp. As an adult, he worked as a wrestling coach and a novelist and had two children although both are alive. An illegitimate child, he grew up at a prestigious prep school where he wrestled and ran track.

Irving's CV strongly resembles that of Garp. It stars Robin Williams as Garp, along with Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, and Jessica Tandy. Garp from his unusual conception to his tragic early death.Ī film version directed by George Roy Hill, who wrote the screenplay adaptation along with Steve Tesich, was released in 1982. Written in the style of a biography, it chronicles the quirky life and times of author, husband, and father T.S. 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. John Irving’s fourth novel, published in 1978, The World According to Garp was a bestseller for several years.

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."