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A wonderful book will make you laugh and cry out load. Once you've read it you'll recommend it to everyone and won't to able to forget the marvellous twin-throne loos and the inimatable partnership of Management and Ownership (aka Mrs Bhoolabhoy). Tusker and Lucy Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small town of Pangot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of a empire and of a forty-year love affair.
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"Staying On covers only a few months but it carries the emotional impact of a lifetime, even a civilisation" (Philip Larkin)
"Certainly his funniest and, I think, his best. it is a first-class book and deserves to be remembered for a long time" (Evening Standard)
"One of the most cherished books of the last quarter-century. It is good to re-read it for its humour and pathos as well as its wonderful description of the legacy of the Raj" (Sunday Telegraph)
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"Certainly his funniest and, I think, his best. it is a first-class book and deserves to be remembered for a long time" (Evening Standard)
"One of the most cherished books of the last quarter-century. It is good to re-read it for its humour and pathos as well as its wonderful description of the legacy of the Raj" (Sunday Telegraph)
From the author of the Raj Quartet - dramatised for Radio Four
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- PublisherJohn Curley & Associates
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0893401579
- ISBN 13 9780893401573
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages530
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1978 Book: Very Good/, (illustrator). Book: Very Good/, $28.90 0893401579 STAYING ON * SCOTT, Paul J. Curley 1978 X~Library Edition 0ff~White Spine With Title In Maroon Letters, Soft Cover Book: Very Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 530 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine/ Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine. X~Library Edition With Stamps And Stickers. D/j: None. This Book Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = Padded Mailing Envelope * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *. Seller Inventory # 019926
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