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Five-Dollar Smile, The: Fourteen Early S [Paperback] Shashi Tharoor
Author: Tharoor Shashi
ISBN: 978-0143424314
Price: Rs. 250.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
The Five Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor's late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the Emergency.
Browse this title within our Shashi Tharoor collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 240 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0143424314.
About the Author
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Her last book was the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Educated in India, England and the United States, she continues to divide her time between places, with mixed results.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0143424314
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Pan-India Delivery
- Dispatches in 24–48 Hours across India
What is this book about?
The Five Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Shashi Tharoor and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Tharoor Shashi.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book for its raw honesty and surprising depth. Written when Shashi Tharoor was barely out of his teens, these stories capture the intensity of first love, youthful rebellion, and early disillusionment with striking emotional clarity. You get intimate portraits of growing up, alongside sharp reflections on loss, honour, and hypocrisy. Pocket-friendly yet powerful, it’s a perfect value read that lets you witness the early spark of a major literary voice.
- Published by Penguin.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 240.
Catalog Description
The Five Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor's late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the Emergency.
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