Show Business

Tharoor Shashi ; Besse Christiane
POINTS
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EAN : 9782757803035

After his highly regarded debut with The Great Indian Novel ( LJ 3/1/90), London-born, New York-resident Tharoor takes on the Bombay film industry, or "Bellywood," in this tale of a minor government official's son who rises from bit parts to Indian superstardom, then moves on to meet his downfall in the similar if more dangerous game of politics. Ashok's amoral adventures will sound familiar to readers of Hollywood novels--apparently the movie biz is juicily venal no matter what its country of origin--but idiosyncratic cultural differences add a few twists to the parade of cliches. (There's a glossary to help with the unfamiliar vocabulary.) The novel's structure, juxtaposing scripts and character monologs, remains interesting throughout, although much of the writing seems surprisingly precious, especially the humor. The tragic climax works well, even though Tharoor fails to make his self-serving protagonist anything like a sympathetic hero--which may well be his pessimistic point. For popular fiction collections.-David Bartholomew, NYPLCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Nombre de pages 410
Date de parution 15/02/2007
Poids 205g
Largeur 107mm
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EAN 9782757803035
Titre Show Business
ISBN 2757803034
Auteur Tharoor Shashi ; Besse Christiane
Editeur POINTS
Largeur 107
Poids 205
Date de parution 20070215
Nombre de pages 410,00 €

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