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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Life of Adventure and Delight

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Sharma, Akhil

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0393355896
ISBN13: 9780393355895
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Aug 28 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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 divorcé 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.

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