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John Irving
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A SON OF THE CIRCUS |
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Paperback |
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633 |
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1994 |
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B000GQHYVQ |
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Random House |
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1.95 pounds |
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1.9 x 6.7 x 0.1 inches |
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1st |
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By Douglas A. Greenberg VINETM VOICE
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a wonderful novel--engrossing, well-crafted, moving, humorous, and profound. Even after 630+ pages, I was sorry to come to the end of the book. To this I must add: based on some other reviews I have read, a prerequisite for reading *A Son of the Circus* evidently is development of an attention span longer than that typical of today's channel-surfing, sound-byte-seeking generation.
The plot is Byzantine and carefully-woven, but ultimately predictable in some ways. The story and its ending are not particular strengths of the novel, but are mainly vehicles for Irving's skillful neo-Dickensian depiction of contemporary India--more specifically, some of its colorfully bizarre social settings and the diverse personalities that animate these unusual environments.
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