SOURCE: "The Politics of Selfhood: Bob Slocum, T. S. Garp and Auto-American-Biography," in Novel, Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall, 1986, pp. 41-61.
In the following excerpt, Carton examines "the issue of the individual's uncertain identity and political complicity" in The World According to Garp.
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