The World According To Garp, John Irving, c. 1976.
Chapter 1: Boston Mercy
Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, Boston, arrested in 1942.
Fields, family fortune in shoes.
Fields, a nurse, looking for a husband to have a baby.
TSgt Garp, "the late gunner" -- violent death -- a nose gunner in the B-17C; and, a waist gunner int he B-17E before they made him a ball turret gunner.
35th flight over France.
Injured. Brought to Boston Mercy where Jenny Fields was working.
Baby: T. S. Garp. Technical Sergeant Garp.
Father dies.
The book is about the son, t. S. Garp.
Chapter Two: Blood and Blue
Humorous, puns. Clever writing. Almost too clever by half.
Fields now a school nurse at Steering School.
800 boys; a boy school.
Jenny Fields signed a 5-year contract; great nurse.
Story of Garp getting lost on the roof trying to capture pigeons.
p. 45
Really a fun book to read.
Not sure yet what to think of it, especially knowing that some lists have this book as a top literature book. There needs to be a lesson by the end of the book.
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