MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY FAN / JOHN IRVING / INDIA / ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS

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DESCRIPTION: Franklin Library’s full-leather binding, part of the OUT OF PRINT SIGNED 🖊 FIRST EDITION of JOHN IRVING’S MASTERPIECE, A SON OF THE CIRCUS. THIS IS A SCARCE VINTAGE HEIRLOOM FRANKLIN WITH LAVISH GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE with A BEAUTIFUL FULL-COLOR FRONTISPIECE.  IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY-PRIZED EDITIONS OF THIS EDITION. COLLECTOR’S NOTECARD IS INCLUDED. 🍍 NOT INCLUDED… 😃 

ABOUT THE BOOK: In A Son of the Circus, Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989, etc.) sets his book about outcasts and freaks in India.  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 loves. Daruwalla is also a secret screenwriter for the Hindi cinema and has created the enormously popular and universally loathed Inspector Dahr — a character he invented for a man whom he had rescued as a child and who is like a son to him. And, in a typical Hindi film twist, the real Inspector Dahr has an identical twin who was separated at birth and has grown up in Canada. This twin also travels to Bombay, as a priest in training, unaware of his twin, the extreme hatred for his look-alike, or the fact that the current film seems to have inspired a series of murders and that he or his brother might be the next victim. Subplots involving the fates of orphans, prostitutes, homosexuals, people with the HIV virus, and children sold into bondage are all marched out like speakers at a mulch convention. The descriptions of the Indian circuses and the lives of the performers are fascinating parts of the book!

CONDITION:  Book is in LIKE NEW condition for its age with only a couple faint, negligible rubs to the gilt page ends (SEE PICS FOR FURTHER DETAILS). NO ATTACHED BOOKPLATES, WRITING FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, ETC.  It is a GORGEOUS edition.

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