All about H. Hatterr by Desani, G. V.

All about H. Hatterr (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590172421)

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All about H. Hatterr by Desani, G. V.

All about H. Hatterr

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All about H. Hatterr by Desani, G. V.

All about H. Hatterr

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Format: Paperback
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Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure."

Author: G. V. Desani
ISBN-10: 1590172426
ISBN-13: 9781590172421
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.10w x 0.68d
By G. V. Desani
By G. V. Desani
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G. V. Desani (1909--2001) was born Nairobi, Kenya and raised in India. In the late 1930s, and throughout the war, he was a BBC broadcaster and lectured on India. He contributed regularly to The Times of India's Illustrated Weekly and produced a weekly opinion page called "Very High and Very Low." He moved to the United States in 1970 to teach at Boston University and subsequently the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Professor of Religion and Philosophy.

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a prolific novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, and critic. He is best known for the novel A Clockwork Orange.

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