{"product_id":"son-of-the-circus-book-john-irving-9780345394750","title":"A Son of the Circus","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis most entertaining novel since \u003ci\u003eGarp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Son of the Circus\u003c\/i\u003e is comic genius . . . get ready for  John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. 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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.\u003cb\u003e--Bharati Mukherjee, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRingmaster 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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626123534609,"sku":"GOR002287638","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345394755.jpg?v=1750813664","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/son-of-the-circus-book-john-irving-9780345394750","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}