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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Short story collections are always hit or miss for me. I either binge the whole book in a couple days or it takes weeks because I have no problem stopping after each story. A Life of Delight and Adventure is one that I kept reading. It’s all about Indian families with a lot of focus on relationships of arranged marriages. A few take place in the US but most are in India. Men don’t come across in a good light in most of the stories. I enjoy the level of description Sharma uses while still having some kind of plot...always a tough balance in the short story ( ) no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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