Journey through four geenerations, across two continents with the astonishing family of T.S. Garp--the famous bastard son of a belligerent mother---who loves, lusts, labors, and triumphs in a world of assassins, wrestlers, rapists, feminist fanatics, transsexual football players, tantalizing teen-age babysitters, adoring children and a wayward wife.

His life is comic, tragic, violent, tender.

His world is totally outrageous.

And as real as your own.