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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: life of adventure and delight
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Sharma, Akhil
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 202 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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 divorc#65533; 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Akhil Sharma.
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  classification: PS3569.H34287 A6 2017
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780393285345
  identifier: 0393285340
  identifier: 2017015695
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170501
    record change date: 20170728144348.0
    record identifier: in00003887022
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng