In Search of Love and Beauty - Hardcover

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719540623 ISBN 13: 9780719540622

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Physical description; 227p ; 23cm. Subjects; Women - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Mothers and daughters - Fiction. Gurus - Fiction. Fiction in English, - 1945- - Texts.

About this title

Review:

Brilliantly readable (Auberon Waugh, Daily Mail)

The scenes are so precisely balanced and counterpoised that each enriches and illuminates (Listener)

Praise for her previous work:

A writer of genius ... a writer of world class - a master storyteller (Sunday Times)

Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty (New York Times Book Review)

Among the best fiction written about the country since A Passage to India (Observer)

Deliciously comic (Daily Telegraph)

Her tussle with India is one of the richest treats of contemporary literature (Guardian)

Book Description:

Booker prize-winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's brilliant, sharply ironic portrait of a small group of wealthy Europeans exiled in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0719540623
• ISBN 13: 9780719540622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232