Glen Duncan - I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about ...

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I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.

Glen Duncan

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Ich habe John Irvings Roman "Die Welt nach Garp" gelesen, als ich ungefähr 14 oder 15 Jahre alt war. Es war das erste erwachsene Buch, das ich gelesen hatte. Es ist die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der zum Schriftsteller heranwächst. Ich beendete es, und ich wollte ein Buch schreiben, in dem der Leser das Gefühl hatte, wie ich mich am Ende gefühlt habe.

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