The World According to Garp
by John Irving
read: circa 2002
At one point in the novel, the titular T.S. Garp opines that "the autobiographical basis—if there even was one—was the least interesting level of which to read a novel." What makes this even more amusing is that Garp's life mirrors author John Irving's in many ways; Garp is a writer, he coaches wrestling, he knows nothing of his father. I think about this sentence a lot, both whether it is true or not, and whether Irving meant it to be true or if it was kind of a joke.
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