The World According to Garp | Related Titles
Although The World According to Garp is not part of a series of novels having the same characters or advancing the same plot, it does look back to Irving's previous work and forward to his later novels in at least two ways. First, T. S. Garp, the novelist/major character, recapitulates parts of Irving's career as a writer. Garp's second novel is titled The Second Wind of the Cuckold, a tide that evokes the last line of Irving's third novel, The 158-Pound Marriage (1974): "If cuckolds catch a second wind, I am eagerly waiting for mine." Further, part of the plot of...
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