Beach Boy - Softcover

Vakil, Ardashir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684853000 ISBN 13: 9780684853000

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1999

Synopsis

In this award-winning novel, set in Bombay in the early 1970s, Cyrus Readymoney, the eight-year-old son of a successful shipping broker and a beautiful former tennis star, introduces us to his magical universe of movies and mischief, sex and samosas, tennis tournaments and truancy from school. His mind is filled with daydreams of becoming a grown-up, but with the collapse of his parents' marriage and his father's sudden death, Cyrus finds himself caught between the innocence of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood.

With an acute ear for the nuances of Indian English and a comic appreciation of a boy's life, Ardashir Vakil creates an extraordinarily vivid tableau of India while at the same time drawing a rich portrait of adolescence and its appetites.

About this title

About the Author:

Ardashir Vakil was born in Bombay in 1962. He teaches English at Pimlico Comprehensive School in London, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Beach Boy, his first novel, won a Betty Trask award, was a finalist for the Whitbread Prize in the United Kingdom, and was a bestseller in India.

Synopsis:

Tells the story of an eight-year-old boy caught between his childhood innocence and the responsibilities of adulthood that arrive all too soon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684853000
• ISBN 13: 9780684853000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239