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The better man : a novel / Anita Nair.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.N255 B4 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nair, Anita.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Middle-aged men--Fiction.
- Middle-aged men.
- Malabar (India)--Fiction.
- Malabar (India).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 361 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador USA edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador USA, 2000.
- Summary:
- In this debut novel, middle-aged Acuthan Nair returns to restore his childhood house. After hiring the town painter to help him, he and the painter become close friends. Yet when members of the town elite tempt Acuthan with a chance at gaining the status he's always craved, his loyalty to his friend is tested.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New Delhi : Penguin Books ; New York, NY : Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is Picador paperback edition, August 2001.
- ISBN:
- 0312253117
- OCLC:
- 43615575
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