A Son of the Circus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345417992)

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

Author: John Irving
ISBN-10: 0345417992
ISBN-13: 9780345417992
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 06/23/1997
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.60d

About the Author
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Academy Award nominations.