There was, however, an emptiness in the book - a sense that like the scene on the front seat of the Buick, Irving had bitten off more than he could chew. But at the time of its publication - Monty Python was big on US college campuses just then - what mattered was that it was bizarre. It was sick, especially when set against its academic, Waspy background. Although it was unlikely to travel, The World According To Garp caught on in America as a piece of contemporary surrealism with a handful of 'memorable' incidents - like an English major whose penis gets bitten off in a car crash. In The World According To Garp (1978), he created a set of half-comic, half-serious characters dispensing a dull New England wisdom.
J ohn Irving is the author of one of the oddest cult novels ever written.
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