A Son Of The Circus

A Son Of The Circus

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‘The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again – if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.’Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen – a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer…

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Weight0.533 kg
Dimensions3.7 × 12.5 × 19.7 cm
Format
language1
Pages

784

Publisher

Year Published

1995-9-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

055299605X

About The Author

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules – a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.

Daruwalla is another iconic Irving figure… Irving handles this incarnadine combination of farce and horror with high speed skill, creating a compulsively readable book

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[Irving] is at the peak of his powers… he plunges the reader into one sensual or grotesque scene after another with cheerful vigour and a madcap tenderness for life… entertainment on a grand scale

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