Beach Boy - Hardcover

Vakil, Ardashir

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ISBN 10: 0241137608 ISBN 13: 9780241137604

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1997

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Beach Boy is about sex and samosas, sea and shore, tennis tournaments, truant afternoons, Hindi films, a mysterious Miss Haversham Maharani and her seductive adoptive daughter. The passage to adolescence of Cyrus, the book's narrator, is set in the biggest of big cities, full of unforgettable sights and smells, especially cooking smells, and includes discoveries about lies and death, meals and girls.

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Synopsis:

A coming-of-age story set in Bombay following a boy's passage to adolescence with sex and samosas, sea and shore, truant afternoons, Hindi films, and a woman's seductive daughter. The city is full of unforgettable sights and smells and includes discoveries about lies and death, meals and girls.

About the Author:

Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay in 1962. He lives in London and teaches English at Pimlico Comprehensive School.

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