{"product_id":"a-son-of-the-circus-9780345417992","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\u003e\"His 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\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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His 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\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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eSetting Free the Bears, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for \u003ci\u003eThe World According to Garp.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for \u003ci\u003eThe Cider House Rules.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for \u003ci\u003eIn One Person.\u003c\/i\u003e An international writer, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. \u003ci\u003eA Prayer for Owen Meany\u003c\/i\u003e is his best-selling novel, in every language\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323579339026,"sku":"9780345417992","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1db1cd0b-6602-433b-9287-ec50f7eac602.jpg?v=1727659233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-son-of-the-circus-9780345417992","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}