Cover Image

The cooking of books : a literary memoir /

"It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his re...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guha, Ramachandra (Author)
Other Authors: Advani, Rukun (Correspondent)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
Subjects:
Guha, Ramachandra.
Advani, Rukun.
Guha, Ramachandra > Technique.
Advani, Rukun > Influence.
Guha, Ramachandra > Correspondence.
Advani, Rukun > Correspondence.
Authors, Indic > Biography.
Historians > India > Biography.
Editors > India > Biography.
Authors and publishers > India.
Authorship.
Editing.
Écrivains de l'Inde > Biographies.
Éditeurs > Inde > Biographies.
Écrivains et éditeurs > Inde.
Art d'écrire.
Édition.
authorship.
autobiographies (literary works)
personal correspondence.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface (why this book was written)
  • Sportsman and scholar
  • Finding one another
  • Author and editor
  • Exiting the OUP
  • Writer and critic
  • Patriot and sceptic
  • The editor at home.