One last look : a novel / Susanna Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Susanna.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonial administrators.

Families.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.

India.

History.

Colonial administrators--Family relationships--Fiction.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Brothers and sisters.

British--India--Fiction.

British.

Kolkata (India)--Fiction.

Kolkata (India).

Women--India--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

After several wretched months at sea, Eleanor Oliphant arrives in Calcutta with her brother Henry and sister Harriet. It is 1836, and her beloved Henry has just been appointed England's new Governor-General for India. Eleanor is to be his official hostess. Despite the imported English gowns and formal soir?es, India makes a mockery of Eleanor's sensibilities. Burning heat, starving people, insects as big as eggs-it is all an unreal dream, rife with tumultuous life. Harriet gives herself over to the adventure. Henry busies himself with official duties. Eleanor, though groping for bearings, slowly finds her isolation punctuated by moments of elation: her first monsoon, graceful women in vibrant sarees, Benares rising out of the mist. She discovers she likes curries and her native servants; and often dislikes her compatriots. Over the course of six years and a trek from Calcutta to Kabul and back, India manages to unsettle all of her "old, old ideas."

ISBN:

1400075416

9781400075416

OCLC:

56726009