Tropical classical : essays from several directions /

Tropical classical : essays from several directions / Pico Iyer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iyer, Pico
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American essays.
Travel > Anecdotes.
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-Hoogly
  • 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.
  • (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.

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