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Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley
Can The Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question Of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley
English
The marketing of books is often beyond the control of their authors; nonetheless, dust jackets sometimes offer amusing evidence of the audience that publication houses, if not authors, wish to reach. Thus, in Red Earth and Pouring Rain ( 1995), Vikram Chandra apparently offers readers the sto1y of "an eighteenth-century wan-ior poet (now reincarnated as a typewriting monkey) and an Indian student home from college in America ... [and] ranging from bloody battles in colonial India to college anomie in California, from Hindu gods to MTV." By way of context, consider Lee Siegel's academic novel, Love in a Dead Language …
Review Of Wired To The World, Chained To The Home: Telework In Daily Life By Penny Gurstein, Mary A. Armstrong
Review Of Wired To The World, Chained To The Home: Telework In Daily Life By Penny Gurstein, Mary A. Armstrong
English
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Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley
English
Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay; his father was a nationally famous lawyer ("vakil" means lawyer, in fact) and his mother established a number of bookstores. Vaki l attended St. Mary's School and finished his schooling at The Doon School in the footh ills of the Himalayas before moving to Great Britain to take an English degree at Magdalene College in Cambridge. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. He currently teaches at the Homsey School for Girls. While continuing to teach four days a week, he is working on his second novel, which is set in …
Firdaus Kanga, John C. Hawley
Firdaus Kanga, John C. Hawley
English
Firdaus Kanga was born in Bombay with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), a condition that prevented his bones from growing beyond a certain point. Also this condition meant that his bones had the potential of breaking easily. As a result, he spent most of his early years bedridden, not attending school, leaving his home only occasionally to attend the cinema with his family. It was not until he was nineteen that he obtained his first wheelchair. Kanga 's family expected him to become a solicitor, but he did not find his experiences in law school satisfying. On the other hand, …
Review Of Susan Wells, Out Of The Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians And The Writing Of Medicine, Amy Propen, Mary M. Lay
Review Of Susan Wells, Out Of The Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians And The Writing Of Medicine, Amy Propen, Mary M. Lay
English
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