{"product_id":"johnirvingasonofthecircus","title":"John Irving - A Son of the Circus","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Irving. Themes include Fiction, Action \u0026amp; Adventure, Fantasy, Literary, Psychological.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58003197919606,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780345389961.jpg?v=1780404575","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/johnirvingasonofthecircus","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}