{"product_id":"a-son-of-the-circus-9780345417992","title":"A Son of the Circus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Irving\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--New York Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\"HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Bharati Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e The Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irving's gift for dialogue shines.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chicago Tribune \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408675037335,"sku":"9780345417992","price":1937.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780345417992.webp?v=1767310265","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-son-of-the-circus-9780345417992","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}