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My Dear Maura
Saros Cowasjee
My Dear Maura : Saros Cowasjee : Vision Books : Book (ISBN: 8170946468)
Pages: 150
Price: Rs. 190
Format: Paperback
ISBN13/10: 9788170946465 / 8170946468
Availability: Yes
Published in 2005
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This hilarious novel is a worthy sequel to the
author’s highly acclaimed Goodbye to Elsa. Tristan, an Anglo-Indian
professor, meets divorcee Maura Hawkins at a nudist meeting and instantly falls
in love with her. He has just been released from a mental asylum to which
obviously (he tells us) he had been admitted unfairly. What follows is a crazy
romp through a small Canadian town, involving its local university. Its batting
academics, its feminists and young mothers, and not least Maura's year-old
daughter, Clare. Tristan sees in Clare a hope for the future, and decides to
‘rescue’ her from her mother and this God forsaken country and take her to India
with him. He plans a kidnapping one that is totally absurd and completely
believable.
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 | "Entirely original and elegantly written, Goodbye to Elsa is a deadly serious comedy. In many ways this brilliant novel is a hymn to women . . . ." —The Listener (London) |
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| "In a way it is a crazy book — not a novel at all, but just a book, a damn good one too'. —Henry Miller |
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| "Funny, full of bite." —The Times (London) |
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Saros Cowasjee
Saros
Cowasjee is Professor Emeritus
of the
University
of
Regina
in
Canada
. His writings include the novels Goodbye to Elsa (1974) and My Dear
Maura (2005), critical studies on Sean O'Casey and Mulk Raj Anand, and
several anthologies of fiction. The latter include The Oxford Anthology of
Raj Stories (2001) and The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus (2004). His latest
is a collection of his own short fiction entitled Strange Meeting and Other
Stories (2006).
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