{"product_id":"a-son-of-the-circus-9780345389961","title":"A Son of the Circus","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Son of the Circus\u003c\/strong\u003e by Irving, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780345389961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVINGS MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE.\"\n--The Boston Globe\n\"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 Irvings 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.\"\n--New York Newsday\n\"HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.\"\n--Bharati Mukherjee\nThe Washington Post Book World\n\"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.\"\n--The Wall Street Journal\n\"IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irvings gift for dialogue shines.\"\n--Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987915534389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345389964","price":62.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345389961_de8e72d1-8330-4162-b0df-e8b64f5b2c81.jpg?v=1781058890","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-son-of-the-circus-9780345389961","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}