In the next, he is running down a suspected child molester in the park. In one scene, he is fixing dinner for his family. The book follows Garp throughout his life, detailing both the everyday and extraordinary situations he finds himself in. When Jenny writes a book called A Sexual Suspect, beats Garp to becoming a published author and also becomes a feminist icon, Garp becomes an anti-feminist of sorts in his own writing. Jenny is disinterested in sex of any kind Garp is hypersexual. He becomes interested in writing fiction and wrestling, and although he loves his mother very much, he spends a good deal of his life rebelling against her way of doing things. Jenny takes a job in the infirmary at an all-boys school and Garp is raised on the campus. Nurse Jenny Fields, in want of a baby but not a husband, takes advantage of the perpetual sexual arousal of a comatose soldier in her care and impregnates herself, naming the resulting son after the young man. Garp’s first initials stand for “Technical Soldier”, a nod to the father he never met. #303 on “1,001 Books to Read Before You Die”
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