{"product_id":"067697046x-a_son_of_the_circus","title":"A Son Of The Circus","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR 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 TribuneFrom the Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld Literature\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eCanadian\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Random House of Canada, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47425017118910,"sku":"067697046X-4","price":16.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/91CUksGwV1L.jpg?v=1779291879","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/067697046x-a_son_of_the_circus","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}