One man and his boat

Advantages: Good solid, well-researched read
Disadvantages: The 'zigzags and loop-arounds' - rather rambling in places

...Hemingway and ?Pilar? Despite its size (over 450 pages, excluding appendices and index), this volume is not exactly a full biography of Ernest Hemingway. In fact, it might almost have been subtitled ?The rise and fall?. Its theme is more or less the second half of his life, from 1934, when he returned from an African safari and took delivery of his boat ?Pilar?, to his tragic death 27...

JOHNV 11.03.2012 14:03 (14.03.2012 05:50) · Read review
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Review of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 - Paul Hendrickson

Modern India

Advantages: Fascinating look at how India works
Disadvantages: A lot of information to take in

...-fiction, but was attracted to the cover of this book, which shows a man rowing down a river carrying bunches of flowers in his boat. The author Mark Tully wrote this book with his partner, Gillian, although his is the only name on the front cover. Tully was born in India, but educated in the UK. He then returned to South Asia as a journalist with the BBC. He later left the BBC and became a journalist in...

sunmeilan 02.05.2006 10:42 · Read review
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Review of India in Slow Motion - Mark Tully, Gillian Wright

Pride and Prejudice in the Sub-Continent

Advantages: A wonderful story of manners and polite society
Disadvantages: A rather unsatisfying ending

.... Shakuntala really couldn't be more different than Indira, her sister-in-law, who in turn thinks life just couldn?t be more delightful than sipping tea with Shakuntala?s mother and discussing the selection of wedding presents for other well-to-do people. Across the city Shakuntala?s old school friend Gulab is lazing around her apartment, barely bothering to dress most days and whiling away the hours doting...

koshkha 28.06.2012 16:25 · Read review
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Review of Esmond in India - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala