The Five Dollar Smile The Five Dollar Smile

The Five Dollar Smile

And Other Stories

    • 4.0 • 1 Rating
    • $10.99
    • $10.99

Publisher Description

This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title story—written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations—a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. 
Tharoor’s admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes “How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink” a delightful homage, while “The Temple Thief,” “The Simple Man,” and “The Political Murder” bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, “Friends,” “The Pyre,” and “The Professor’s Daughter,” are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. “The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer” is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer’s conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
December 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Arcade
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
1.7
MB

More Books Like This

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The Best British Short Stories of 1922
2018
The Best of Frank O'Connor The Best of Frank O'Connor
2009
The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
2013
Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
2004
The Female Short Story. A Chronological History The Female Short Story. A Chronological History
2021
The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
2011

More Books by Shashi Tharoor

Inglorious Empire Inglorious Empire
2017
Why I Am a Hindu Why I Am a Hindu
2018
The Elephant, The Tiger, and the Cellphone The Elephant, The Tiger, and the Cellphone
2011
Nehru Nehru
2011
Leaders, Politicians, Citizens Leaders, Politicians, Citizens
2022
A Monsoon Feast A Monsoon Feast
2012