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  title info:
    title: Tropical classical
    sub title: essays from several directions
  name:
    name part: Iyer, Pico.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1997
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 314 pages ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: Ethiopia : prayers in the wilderness -- Nepal : movie days in Kathmandu -- Tibet : the life and times of the Potala Palace -- The East India Company : Oxbridge-on-the-Hooghly -- Bombay : Hobson-Jobson on the streets -- The new world's new world : making itself up and over -- New York : a city in black and white -- A hermitage in California : a life outside time -- Norman Lewis : a curious collector of curiosities -- Tenzin Gyatso : Tibet's guiding star -- Peter Matthiessen : in search of the crane -- Peter Brook : autumn of the rebel patriarch -- Welcome to the age of tropical classical -- A junglified Victoria : reef by Romesh Gunesekera -- Jane Austen in Calcutta : A suitable boy by Vikram Seth -- The mailman from Malgudi: Malgudi days by R.K. Narayan -- Prosaic justice all around : Salman Rushdie vs. the Ayatollah -- Pop goes the culture: East, West by Salman Rushdie -- In praise of folly : Three continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; The web by Andrew Harvey -- The spiritual import-export market : Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai -- Waiting upon history : The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro -- A Martian in Mittel Europe : The unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro -- A small, bewildered foreigner : Paddington's storybook by Michael Bond -- Tourists at home : The Misalliance by Anita Brookner ; Persian nights by Diane Johnson -- The meek inherit no earth : Grace abounding by Maureen Howard ; No fond return of love by Barbara Pym.
  table of contents: (Cont'd) Richard Burton in the Peace Corps : The happy isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux -- An Englishman in Paradise : Spring street summer by Christopher Hudson -- Private eye, public conscience : the works of Raymond Chandler -- An American song of enthusiasm : Henry Miller at 100 -- Searching for America : Sundog by Jim Harrison -- A connoisseur of fear : White noise by Don DeLillo -- Black-magic realism : The crossing by Cormac McCarthy -- In the shadow of the '60s : The burning house by Ann Beattie -- A waiting room for death : A match to the heart by Gretel Ehrlich -- In praise of the humble comma -- Excuse-moi! Speakez-vous Franglais? -- For Japan, see Oscar Wilde -- Through the Cuban looking glass -- The rise of minority terrorism -- History? Education? Zap! Pow! Cut! -- Authors' photos and the tyranny of the image -- Perhaps the best article on blurbs I've written today -- The contagion of innocence -- A midsummer night's dream : The sequel -- The ultimate near-life experience -- Of weirdos and eccentrics -- 9/9/1991 -- Sleeping with the enemy -- The competitive advantage of seasons -- Confessions of a frequent flier -- The new enemies of promise -- The Lears : an American tragedy -- A game of instants -- Silence.
  note: Pico Iyer.
  subject:
    topic: American essays
  subject:
    topic: Travel
    genre: Anecdotes
  classification: PS3559.Y47 T76 1997
  classification: 814/.54
  identifier: 0679454322
  identifier: 96038578
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 960823
    record change date: 20151019172225.0
    record identifier: in00001385129