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Irving, John.
A Son of the Circus
[Libby] :
A Novel.
Random House Publishing Group,
2009.
crime fiction.
bombay.
Toronto.
crime thriller.
Humor.
Mystery and Suspense.
Doctor.
contemporary fiction.
crime.
Thrillers.
American fiction.
American.
suspense.
20th Century.
mystery.
murder .
mystery thriller.
crime novel.
Thriller.
Contemporary.
us.
mystery fiction.
mystery and thrillers.
Canada.
Circus .
India.
literature.
bollywood.
American Literature.
dwarf.
USA.
thriller books.
crime books.
mystery books.
mystery suspense.
mystery thrillers.
mystery novels.
suspense books.
mystery suspense thriller.
john irving books.
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Thriller.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:<b>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 <i>The World According to Garp</i></b><br /> “His most entertaining novel since <i>Garp.</i>”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review<br /></i></b><br /> “<i>A Son of the Circus</i> is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.”<b>—<i>The Boston Globe<br /></i></b><br /> “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.”<b>—<i>New York Newsday<br /></i></b><br /> “His most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.”<b>—Bharati Mukherjee, <i>The Washington Post Book World<br /></i></b><br /> “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.”<b>—<i>The Wall Street Journal<br /></i></b><br /> “Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.”<b>—<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br /> <b>BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's <i>In One Person.</i></b>.
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