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A Son of the Circus
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ISBN10: 0345417992
ISBN13: 9780345417992
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jun 23 1997
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345417992
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jun 23 1997
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp His most entertaining novel since Garp.--The New York Times Book Review
A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.--The Boston Globe
Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture, or religion to call his own. . . . The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries.--New York Newsday
His most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.--Bharati Mukherjee, The Washington Post Book World
Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace. . . . [He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car. . . . His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing.--The Wall Street Journal
Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.--Chicago Tribune
Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture, or religion to call his own. . . . The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries.--New York Newsday
His most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.--Bharati Mukherjee, The Washington Post Book World
Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace. . . . [He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car. . . . His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing.--The Wall Street Journal
Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.--Chicago Tribune
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