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A Son of the Circus by John Irving | |
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About 64 pages (19,321 words) in 5 products |
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| Name: |
John Irving | | Variant Name: |
John Winslow Blunt, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
March 1, 1942 | | Place of Birth: |
Exeter, New Hampshire, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of John (Winslow) Irving
9025 words, approx. 30.1 pages
 John Irving enjoys a rare and prominent place among contemporary American writers not only for having published a string of best-sellers but also for having received accolades from critics in the popular and academic press alike. His status has been assu... summary from source:
Biography of John (Winslow) Irving
6305 words, approx. 21 pages
John Irving was born in Exeter, Massachusetts, the son of F. N. and Frances Winslow Irving. His father was a teacher of Russian history at Exeter Academy, the prep school which Irving attended during his adolescence. There he acquired his lifelong intere... summary from source:
 Biography of John Irving
2045 words, approx. 6.8 pages
One of a few modern best-selling writers who also has literary stature, John Irving (born 1942) rose to prominence in 1979 with his fourth novel, The World According to Garp. His novels have combined 19th century traditions with modern-day melodrama, sex...
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 A Son of the Circus Information
221 words, approx. 1 pages
 A Son of the Circus is a novel by John Irving written and/or published in 1994. Though the setting is Mumbay (Bombay) India and though the book describes the "Blue Nile" circus in details the novel has many other lines of stories, of which the most...
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 The Economist (US) The Son of the Circus.
10/15/1994: 460 words, approx. 2 pages IN HIS latest novel, "The Son of the Circus"*, John Irving tells the story of Farrokh Daruwalla, a 59-year-old Indian doctor who studied medicine in Austria and lives in Toronto, but returns every few years to Bombay. There he works for several months... summary from source:
The Christian Century A Son of the Circus. (book reviews)
09/27/1995: 333 words, approx. 1 pages By John Irving. Random House, 633 pp., $25.00. A SON OF THE CIRCUS is less A directly focused on religion than John Irving's previous novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, but the book is filled with religious imagery and characters who search...
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