A Son of the Circus () is a novel by American writer John Irving. It was a return to his first publisher, Random House, under whose imprint Irving's first three novels appeared. Though the setting is Mumbai, India and though the book describes the "Great Blue Nile" circus in Cited by: 5. A Son of the Circus. Posted Septem · Add Comment. “Usually, the dwarfs kept bringing him back—back to the circus and back to India.”. – Opening lines of John Irving’s A Son of the Circus. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen—a fifty-nine-year-old orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. A Son of the Circus. John Irving. Review By Dan Geddes. John Irving’s command of his material is masterful. He will make you laugh out loud. The reader delights in finally learning the details of those long ago incidents that have long haunted the characters. The reader will often be rewarded with an “aha!” feeling as once mysterious.
― John Irving, A Son of the Circus. 1 likes. Like "It had been an evening in the empty dance hall when not even that depth of stone and the constant stirring of the ceiling fans could cool the stifling and humid night air, which had entered the Duckworth Club as heavily as a fog from the Arabian Sea. Even atheists, like Lowji, were praying. Buy the selected items together. This item: A Son Of The Circus by John Irving Paperback £ Only 8 left in stock. Sent from and sold by Amazon. The Water-Method Man by John Irving Paperback £ Only 2 left in stock (more on the way). Sent from and sold by Amazon. Trying To Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving Paperback £ The son of the circus from the title is Doctor Farokh Daruwalla, a somewhat surprising choice as main character that has to carry on his shoulders such a hefty narrative. Salman Rushdie and John Irving have little in common stylistically and the personalities of the main protagonists could not be more divergent (one a riotous, volcanic.
A Son of the Circus. Posted Septem · Add Comment. “Usually, the dwarfs kept bringing him back—back to the circus and back to India.”. – Opening lines of John Irving’s A Son of the Circus. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen—a fifty-nine-year-old orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. A SON OF THE CIRCUS. by John Irving ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany, , etc.) sets his new book about outcasts and freaks in India, but the story is weighed down by the same stale bag of tricks he has been trotting out since Garp, only now they are more tedious than ever. Part murder mystery, part travelogue, part meditation on faith, sexual personae, and prejudice, the story follows Dr. Daruwalla, an orthopedic surgeon who lives in Toronto, back to India. A Son of the Circus: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Paperback – J. by. John Irving (Author) › Visit Amazon's John Irving Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
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