The five-dollar smile: fourteen early stories and a farce in two acts
Material type: TextPublication details: Haryana Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. 2015 Description: 239 pISBN: 9780143424314Subject(s): Manners and customsDDC classification: 823 Summary: The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor’s late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the EmergencyItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks | Non-fiction | 823 THA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 004562 |
The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor’s late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the Emergency
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