This is the life & times of T S Garp the bastard son of Jenny Fields
- a feminist leader ahead of her times It is also the life & death of a famous mother & her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes
- even of sexual assassinations It is a novel rich with 'lunacy & sorrow'; yet the dark violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald & robust It provides almost cheerful even hilarious evidence of its famous last line " In the world according to Garp we are all terminal cases"