A Life of Adventure and Delight Akhil Sharma

Name: A Life of Adventure and Delight By Akhil Sharma
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A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma

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Summary

In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection.

A Life of Adventure and Delight Summary

A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma

About Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, and included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first book, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

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Sku

GOR009465470

ISBN 13

9780571326327

ISBN 10

0571326323

Title

A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma

Author

Akhil Sharma

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20180802

Number of pages

208

Prizes

N/A

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