IRVING, John - The World According to GARP - (Paperback)

(NO MORE THAN 5 BOOKS PER ORDER OR PARCEL ALLOWED) - Book still in a good condition    >>>   Jenny Fields is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband. A dying  gunner known only as  Garp, who was severely  in combat, is admitted to the ICU where Jenny works. She nurses Garp, observing his infantile state and frequent erections. Unconstrained by convention and driven by her desire for a child, Jenny  by  the brain-damaged soldier, and names the bastard son "T. S." (derived from "Technical Sergeant"). Jenny raises young Garp alone, taking a position as the live-in nurse at an all-boys preparatory school in New England.   -   Garp grows up, becoming interested in sex, wrestling, and writing fictionthree topics in which his mother has little interest. After his graduation in 1961, his mother takes him to , where he writes his first novella. At the same time, his mother begins writing her autobiography, A Sexual Suspect. After Jenny and Garp return to Steering, Garp marries Helen, the wrestling coach's daughter, and begins his familyhe a struggling writer, she a teacher of English. The publication of A Sexual Suspect makes his mother famous. She becomes a  icon, because feminists view her book as a manifesto of a woman who does not care to bind herself to a man, and who chooses to raise a child on her own. She nurtures and supports women traumatized by men, among them the Ellen Jamesians, a group of women named after an eleven-year-old girl whose tongue was cut out by her rapists to silence her. The members of the group cut out their own tongues in solidarity with Ellen, even though James herself opposes the practice.