Critics in Irvin’s world criticize the book as being exploitative and a ridiculous soap opera and reading it I couldn’t help but think Irving was really making a statement about his own book The World According to Garp and the ridiculous plot that he lays out. One of those books is called The World According to Bensenhaver, and it’s a story about a woman who is raped and kills her attacker and then her husband begins to develop a paranoia about her safety and the entire book ends in violent tragedy. Garp is an author, and occasionally John Irving will spend a chapter with the reader of this book reading a chapter from one of Garp’s books. There are several books within a book in the The World According to Garp.
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