The Five Dollar Smile

The Five Dollar Smile
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9781628725049
ISBN-13 : 1628725044
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Book Synopsis The Five Dollar Smile by : Shashi Tharoor

Download or read book The Five Dollar Smile written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title story—written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations—a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. Tharoor’s admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes “How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink” a delightful homage, while “The Temple Thief,” “The Simple Man,” and “The Political Murder” bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, “Friends,” “The Pyre,” and “The Professor’s Daughter,” are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. “The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer” is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer’s conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist.


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