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In this wry, funny, bitter-sweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi.
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About the Author
R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja's College in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi and are only two out of the twelve novels he based there. In 1958 Narayan's work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country's highest literary honor. In addition to his novels, Narayan has authored five collections of short stories, including A Horse and Two Goats, Malguidi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs, and the re-told legends Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana, and the Mahabharata. In 1980 he was awarded the A.C. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature and in 1982 he was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Narayan died in 2001.
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The Painter of Signs
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1976
ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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THE PAINTER OF SIGNS (First US edition - first impression)
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The Viking Press, New York, USA, 1976
ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Abner Graboff (Jacket design) (illustrator). First American Edtion. First impression of the first US edition. Dustwrapper design by Abner Graboff. ***Near fine in red paper over cream cloth-covered boards with blue and green titles to the spine. The titles are clear and fresh. The boards are clean and unmarked, just slightly faded at the edges. No creases or bumps. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean - just very slightly foxed. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean. No foxing. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of $8.95. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. No serious creases, chips or tears. The pink colour to the spine of the dustwrapper is slightly faded, also affecting slightly the front panel at the top edge. Dustwrapper bright. ***183 pages. 208mm x 147mm. ***'"The Painter of Signs" is R. K. Narayan's first novel ina number of years, and in it he returns again to his enchanting fictional city of Malgudi. There, he tells us the story of Raman, a splendid young painter of sign-boards, a bachelor who glories in his old-fashioned independence, whose work takes him all over Malgudi and requires him to do business with some of the city's most important, as well as its most absurd, tradesmen. Raman is polite and business-like with everyone--but underneath the small talk he conducts a quizzical dialogue with himself about his fellow humans and the meaning of their lives. Enter Daisy--an unlikely name for the ruthless but very attractive young lady who commissions Raman, on behalf of the population clinic she runs, to paint signs advocating two-child families. Together they travel around the neighboring country vilages, where Daisy must propogandize. Raman is appalled by the hard-edged zeal she brings to her work, just as he is enthralled by her beauty and mysterious independence of spirit. They are obviously made for each other. Or are they? In this sardonic, bittersweet tale of love in modern India, R. K. Narayan has created two of fiction's most endearing and unique young lovers, and an unsettling story about India at its best and worst.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 Oct 1906 - 13 May 2001), better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. Narayan's mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan's first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of "Swami and Friends", "The Bachelor of Arts" and "The English Teacher". The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in "Swami and Friends"'. (Wik) ***First impression of the first American edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8835
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The Painter of Signs
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The Painter of Signs: A Novel
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The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1976
ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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The Painter of Signs
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The Painter of Signs
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The Painter of Signs
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Viking Press, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First American edition. First printing. A novel of the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Includes jacket blurbs from Graham Greene, John Updike, and Henry Miller. Slight sunning to spine of dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy. Seller Inventory # 11516
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The Painter of Signs
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Viking Press, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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The Painter of Signs
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ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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The Painter of Signs
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ISBN 10: 0670535672
ISBN 13: 9780670535675
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