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A Son of the Circus"It takes quite a bit of daring to write a 633-page novel set in India and then to confess to your readers in the preface: 'I don't know India. I was there only once, for less than a month.' But daring is something John Irving does not lack, and one leaves this novel feeling that if India is different from his picture of it, then India is missing its vocation. Irving's talent for drawing edification from the grotesque is not to everyone's taste; but if it is to yours, read this novel." |
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“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 |
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