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Loading... A Son of the Circusby John Irving
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I like Irving enough that I was extremely disappointed in this book! I'm ashamed I read as far as I did before I quit! Life is too short to waste any time on trash! I hate this book so much I was tempted to burn it, except that I can't bring myself to burn a book! What was Irving thinking? I have to assume that it must be full of severe sarcasm that I simply don't grasp. Otherwise, this book is surely worthless!  CarlisleMLH | Sep 26, 2009 |  Have to agree with heidilove, I love Irving but did not enjoy this book. (  ) Timanson | Sep 18, 2009 | bizarre, funny, random, and unbelievably creative- Dr. Daruwalla is a man with no country and no religion, who keeps being drawn back to India to take blood from circus dwarfs. with a few secrets up his sleeve, he participates in the investigation of a transsexual serial killer when the life of his bollywood acting-stepson is threatened. it's about people who don't belong anywhere, for people who don't belong anywhere and like to read about other people who don't belong anywhere. (  ) izzynomad | Aug 1, 2008 | funny and bizarre, I like it! Dr. daruwalla has no country (but keeps going to india to take blood from dwarves) and no religion, until a transexual bites his big toe while he sleeps. The rest is history. ( ) izzynomad | Aug 1, 2008 | It seems I don’t really have much to say after all. The book is not for the faint of heart. There are enough problems with the writing that it can be a bit difficult to read, and it is overly long. But it has great characters and decent intertwined plots. (Full review at my blog) (  ) KingRat | Jun 17, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345389964, Mass Market Paperback)"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE."--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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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