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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 067977632X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100070303
- Release Date: April 1, 1997
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #112363 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #13709 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #123 in Short Stories (single author) (See Top 100 Short Stories (single author) Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Swimming Lessons" by Rohinton Mistry to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Swimming Lessons"Browse more products related to "Rohinton Mistry"Review"Mr. Mistry has created, in this volume, a world and a time--presumably, as one highly autobiographical story implies, the lost world of his own childhood in Bombay. [T]he volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives; and...the stories interconnect to give us a portrait of a minutely detailed fictional place--in this case, the apartment complex of Firozsha Baag. ....In other respects, ''Swimming Lessons' has more in common with Joyce's 'Dubliners': not only do the stories all deal with a fading middle class--both its suffocating atmosphere of pettiness and its shabby decencies are chronicled by an author who has already left it behind--but they also tend to pivot around incidents that reveal to the characters some unforeseen truth about their lives." "[Mistry's] ability through antic humor and compassion to make the repellent--or, at the very least, sad--story material...life-affirming, even ebullient, is astonishing given the horrifyingly stunted lives he depicts." "...[E]very story in the collection is finely crafted." Publisher's noteFirozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new."A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times AnnotationA collection of short stories that center on a single apartment building in Bombay. If You Enjoy "Swimming Lessons (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Swimming Lessons (Paperback)" by Rohinton Mistry (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Short Stories (single author) Bestsellers
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