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All about H. Hatterr

By Desani, G V

All about H. Hatterr

By Desani, G V

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Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2007-11-06
Publication Date:
2007-11-06
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590172426
ISBN13:
9781590172421
Weight:
318 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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