false 1333968 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182821521m/1333968.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182821521s/1333968.jpg 7073 28 1323492 book 1994 A Son of the Circus total:3634|5:629|4:1151|3:1239|2:427|1:188| 3634 12508 4577 194 3075 3.86 130624 8942 8900291 199326 765614 0345389964 9780345389961 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196m/765614.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196s/765614.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765614.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.43 216 --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]]> 1994 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Nov 09 15:19:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 22 19:01:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 40174752 1570879 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3157 --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
]]> 1994 5 1 false Mon Dec 15 15:52:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 16:47:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 9395263 610692 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 5 2 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Nov 21 09:28:44 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 09:30:42 -0800 2007 greatest. There is so much going on in this amazing work, I can't even describe it. Set in India with plenty of exotic flavor to go along with the interesting characters and dizzying plot.]]> 47410296 2068709 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 5 1 false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Feb 24 14:41:42 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 14:46:42 -0800 2009 17245883 811952 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 2 1 false Fri Mar 07 11:29:38 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 11:33:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4110164 215009 765614 0345389964 9780345389961 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196m/765614.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196s/765614.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765614.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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]]> 1994 5 1 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Aug 05 11:42:02 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:50:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 44452614 412841 781816 0345417992 9780345417992 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178296730m/781816.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178296730s/781816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781816.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.63 54 --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


From the Paperback edition.]]> 1994 5 1 false Mon Jan 26 17:19:23 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 17:23:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53639419 1037891 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 0 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Apr 22 15:05:26 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 15:07:57 -0700 2009 45909124 949176 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 5 1 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 01:16:10 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 01:34:30 -0800 2009 exactly as weird as it sounds...more...]]> 52530572 2217061 2314875 1423335996 9781423335993 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2314875.A_Son_of_the_Circus 2.60 5
Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years later, he will be reacquainted with the murderer.]]> 1994 4 0 false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 13:20:03 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 17:06:40 -0700 2009 Audible.com that was going to end in a few hours, and the fact that I am part Parsi. I didn't have any familiarity with Irving, only a vague, mild, positive feeling based on the fact ...more...]]> 69610203 1879951 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 16:20:01 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 16:24:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 30181797 1397240 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 10:21:37 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 14 17:57:22 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 10:21:37 -0800 2009 61991091 2484050 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 4 0 false Sun Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 1988 Thu Jul 02 23:07:39 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 13:02:44 -0700 2009
Anyways, as all Irving's ...more...]]> 55850709 1397472 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue May 12 15:48:49 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 16:03:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 32988003 565777 2149097 0552143588 9780552143585 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2149097.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.86 7 Once, twenty years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, twenty years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer.]]> 1994 4 0 false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 16 04:29:37 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 05 02:02:37 -0700 2009 1 I can't think of anybody else - but Irving does it and he does it well!
Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla lives in Canada -...more...]]> 24802873 379432 765614 0345389964 9780345389961 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196m/765614.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178158196s/765614.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765614.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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]]> 1994 4 0 false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 18 08:58:33 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 22 21:51:40 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 40657242 1754689 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 0 0 false Wed Jan 21 05:22:12 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 01:49:21 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 05:22:12 -0800 2009
Perhaps this book wander...more...]]> 71714461 756201 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 4 0 false Fri Sep 18 16:27:01 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 16:37:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65769082 1244222 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
]]> 1994 2 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:36:02 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:37:03 -0700 2009 66734985 152108 7073 0345915623 9780345915627 163 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975m/7073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188185975s/7073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus 3.44 3634 --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
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