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The book of chocolate saints / Jeet Thayil.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.T536 B66 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thayil, Jeet, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets--Fiction.
- Poets.
- Artists--Fiction.
- Artists.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- New Delhi (India)--Fiction.
- New Delhi (India).
- Artists--India--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Artists--India--Fiction.
- New Delhi (India)--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 479 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
- Summary:
- Francis Newton Xavier has lived a life of excess in pursuit of an uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems, which embody a flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit, are to be celebrated at a final show, and party, in New Delhi. Approaching late middle-age, in a body ravaged by hard living, Xavier leaves Manhattan with his partner Goody Lol, and his journey to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de si�ecle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Dismas - Xavier must move into an uncertain future of salvation and damnation.
- ISBN:
- 9780571336104
- 0571341497
- 9780571341498
- 0571336108
- OCLC:
- 991683350
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