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A Son of the Circus (1994) 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.
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- 1994
15 de abr. de 2023 · A son of the circus. by. John Irving. Publication date. 1994. Publisher. A.A. Knopf Canada. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
1 de jan. de 1994 · A Son of the Circus is about Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, and his practice as an orthopedist, and his quasi-adopted son John, and his career as a screenwriter, and his unlikely connection to an idealistic but clueless missionary.
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And it includes a grab bag of typical Irving topics: perverse sexuality, Christianity, unusual families, and untimely death. On the surface, A Son of the Circus is a murder mystery revolving around several members of the posh Indian Duckworth Club, Dr. Daruwalla’s social hangout of choice.
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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...
12 de set. de 1994 · 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, where he was born. In Bombay, he tries to find a genetic marker for achondroplastic dwarfism — the condition that afflicts the circus dwarves he ...
