The Resource A life of adventure and delight : stories, Akhil Sharma
A life of adventure and delight : stories, Akhil Sharma
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The item A life of adventure and delight : stories, Akhil Sharma represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Summary
- Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcée tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. Tender and darkly comic, the protagonists in A Life of Adventure and Delight deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives from a dazzlingly original, critically acclaimed writer
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 202 pages
- Contents
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- Cosmopolitan
- Surrounded by sleep
- We didn't like him
- If you sing like that for me
- A life of adventure and delight
- A heart is such a heavy thing
- You are happy?
- The well
- Isbn
- 9780393285345
- Label
- A life of adventure and delight : stories
- Title
- A life of adventure and delight
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Akhil Sharma
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcée tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. Tender and darkly comic, the protagonists in A Life of Adventure and Delight deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives from a dazzlingly original, critically acclaimed writer
- Summary
- An anthology of dramatic, darkly comic tales by the award-winning author of Family Life explores the unpredictable workings of the human heart and the ways in which people engage in self-deceptive and eccentric behaviors in their efforts to do good and pursue meaningful relationships
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10570625
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sharma, Akhil
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Short stories
- Short stories
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- stories
- Label
- A life of adventure and delight : stories, Akhil Sharma
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- Contents
- Cosmopolitan -- Surrounded by sleep -- We didn't like him -- If you sing like that for me -- A life of adventure and delight -- A heart is such a heavy thing -- You are happy? -- The well
- Control code
- ocn959808734
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 202 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393285345
- Lccn
- 2017015695
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959808734
- Label
- A life of adventure and delight : stories, Akhil Sharma
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- text
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- Contents
- Cosmopolitan -- Surrounded by sleep -- We didn't like him -- If you sing like that for me -- A life of adventure and delight -- A heart is such a heavy thing -- You are happy? -- The well
- Control code
- ocn959808734
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 202 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393285345
- Lccn
- 2017015695
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- (OCoLC)959808734
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