The Silver Castle - Rilegato

James, Clive

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ISBN 10: 0375500936 ISBN 13: 9780375500930

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1998

Riassunto

Told with Clive James's trademark dry wit, The Silver Castle is a tragicomic morality tale for our time.
In his astonishing odyssey from the gutter to the soundstages and salons of Bollywood, Sanjay meets up with every variant of sinner and would-be savior, and along the way he trades on his "heart-breaking" physical beauty and canny lingual facility to grab at luck wherever it may be had - in the pocket of a tourist, as a guide for the Western news crews who regularly descend on Bombay to update their stock footage of grinding poverty, or in the bed of an older male protector or a past-her-prime cinema princess.
Throughout, Sanjay's spirit is sustained by the movies, and by his first behind-the-scenes glimpse, as a young trespasser on the set of the Silver Castle, of the magical artifice of filmmaking. It is a true vision of an utterly false reality, the source of Sanjay's subsequent triumphs and of his ultimate misfortune. But what happens to Sanjay in the end is not a singular event. As this deeply humane novel convincingly argues, Sanjay's fate is the world's.

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L'autore

Clive James was born in 1939 in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at Sydney University and Cambridge. James has written and produced a number of highly acclaimed television documentaries, including, for PBS, Fame in the 20th Century, and he is the host of two popular British television programs,
The Clive James Show and the Postcard   series. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Observer, and has published three volumes of memoirs, six books of poetry, nine collections of essays, and a travel book. The Silver Castle is his fourth novel. James lives in Cambridge, England.

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Book by James Clive

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375500936
• ISBN 13: 9780375500930
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 263