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American Foreign Service Officers abroad ought not to organize anti-American demonstrations, but young Max Lacey does so from love of country. It makes sense in the magical, dysfunctional, Republic of Engañada, where imagination supplies what history has denied.
Early in his diplomatic career Lacey arrives in the port city of Alcalá as Director of the Engañadan-American Cultural Center. He finds a decaying building, a spaced-out Academic Director, an unhelpful Embassy supervisor in the distant capital, and internal plots against the nearly-bankrupt Center. With the help of his imaginative local staff (very much including the lovely Rosa Fuentes Serena), and inspired by the visit of larger-than-life Cultural Affairs Officer Harvey Tyrone, he makes progress until exiled President Espejo returns to challenge the military government. Convoluted Engañadan politics then present new dilemmas and dangers: Max can serve U.S. interests by saving the Center, but only if he undermines the U.S. Ambassador.
As he agonizes over opposing loyalties to his country, he develops new loyalties to the people of Engañada. When civil war threatens he makes his fateful choice, ending up with more romance and adventure, and a briefer diplomatic career, than he ever dreamed.
- Sales Rank: #3832139 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .81" w x 5.50" l, .91 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 356 pages
About the Author
James F. O’Callaghan served in the U.S. Navy 1960-63 before attending Seattle University where he received a BA in English in 1967. He earned his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and taught at the University of Idaho from 1970 to 1974, when he joined the U.S. Information Agency.
After serving in Latin America, Italy, Africa, and Washington D.C., he retired in 2000 and lives with his wife Giovanna in Maple Valley, Washington. They have three grown sons.
He has published short stories, articles, and poems in various publications including the Foreign Service Journal, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, The Latin Mass, New Oxford Review, First Things, Curitiba in English, PAWA Quarterly, and Naples and Beyond (anthology of the Naples Writers Circle).
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The funniest love-letter you'll ever read
By Gringo Loco
"No Circuses" is a delightfully funny and entertaining story that subtly grows on you. By the end, you realize you have not only been entertained, but unexpectedly moved.
Max, the hero, is in the U.S. Foreign Service; and the setting - a Bi-National Center in a fictional Andean country during the 1970's - is likely to be quite foreign indeed to many readers. They, along with Max, will come to know the joys and sorrows, sores and beauties, ecstasies and absurdities of the place, the politics, and the people, all within a gripping story that will keep them wondering what could possibly happen next. While much of the humor follows from the absurdities, it is always playful, and never malicious, mocking, or scornful. The author is laughing with, not at, his Engañadan characters, and one can sense that he regards them all - from the humble but dignified janitor Manuel to the Moses-like President Espejo - with a tender affection. Indeed, the story itself is a love-letter of sorts to South America, its culture, and its people.
The humor is a bit more biting in the caricatures of stuffy American bureaucracy and bureaucrats (who will be instantly recognizable to those who have spent any time in government). But this, too, serves to reveal the virtues hidden within the seemingly dysfunctional theatrics of the local politics and semi-somnambulant pace of life. The Engañadans remind us of the beauty of love of and loyalty to family, immediate and extended, and inspire us to dare to imagine that we can actually become as virtuous as we aspire to be. Quality of life and cultural development are not measured solely by reliable phone service and air-conditioning.
Be sure to read this book in a place that does not demand decorum; you'll be grinning from ear to ear, when not laughing out loud. As the Engañadan poet Simón Bolívar Blanco might ask, "Where, now, my self-control? / Oh merciless mirth, you take your toll!"
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Absurdity in abundance, honoring rather than mocking the Foreign Service
By Ben East
Anyone who thinks diplomacy is about choosing the right fork at the right time should think again and read James O’Callaghan’s clever satire No Circuses (Tacchino Press, 2015).
Forget preconceived notions of dinner-party diplomacy: keeping one’s elbows off the table, tangoing the rival into submission, and writing it up the next day in communiqués to DC. What diplomacy’s really about, in O’Callaghan’s world, is stopping that counter-productive visit by a lackluster VIP, infiltrating explosives via circus caravan past a military brigade, and joining a secessionist movement to secure the most coveted rank of all: Ambassador.
Diplomacy, here, is accepting the maxim that “Absurdity is demeaning only if one refuses to incorporate it.” Absurdity exists in abundance in O’Callaghan’s world, and by its sheer abundance O’Callaghan honors rather than mocks the men and women of the Foreign Service and the State Department.
To wit: if our diplomatic corps can succeed despite such mountains of farce as are heaped upon them, imagine how much more they could do in its absence. I’m talking about a cadre of professionals charged with the most delicate, complex, and pressing issues of the day (negotiate for peace in Syria; stem the tide of global climate change; stamp out Ebola one day and pivot to Zika the next; establish trade agreements abroad to help businessmen pay workers a decent salary at home; etc ad infinitum.) yet made to do so on miserly budgets, subjected to petty oversights, and beset on all sides by quagmires of bureaucratic dos and don’ts.
In other words, our diplomats’ obstacles can amount to the absurd in the face of the urgent, and this absurdity is revealed in all its glory through the adventures of Max Lacey, O’Callaghan’s well-intentioned but eternally undermined Foreign Service Officer. Lacey serves in Alcalá, a provincial capital in the made-up but all-too-real Latin American country of Engañada (so named because “the Spanish explorers had been deceived by local guides, or something like that…”). It’s the 1970’s and the jungle is full of communists, protestors, hippies, back-stabbers, coup-makers, and scoundrels, with Lacey on his own there as director of the American cultural center. But he does have one asset at his fingertips: “His personnel officer had sent him the Foreign Service Guide to the Bi-National Center. Max found it pompous, bureaucratic, exhaustive, and reassuring… If they understand us, the Guide seemed confident, they will approve of our policies. To know us is to love us.”
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Seriously funny
By Terry Caesar
No Circuses is a wonderful read: part drama of an American Innocent enmeshed in a fictional SOuth American country, part satire of the American diplomatic service, part parody of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and all nonstop bemusement at all manner of follies human and bureaucratic, from running a BInational Center to (eventually) just plain running away into the jungle. The narrative is very intricately worked out in all sorts of funny ways in which it's very easy for a reader to get absorbed. O'Callaghan writes very deftly, sometimes stopping just short of cynicism, more often expressing a kind of tenderness for his haplessly political world. The result is a rare kind of comic novel that becomes serious by not taking itself seriously. Again, a wonderful read.
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