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PLAY-ON EDWARD & Other Stories |
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| Published by Embassy Books | | 17th July, 2002 |
| ISBN: pending | | Description:
This book contains tales that defy the pigeon-holes of modern literary prose. In the labyrinthine entrails of this sparkling debut, a cast of characters that baffle the imagination will confront you, a coffee-machine vendor obsessed with online lotteries, wine merchant in debt taking a cab to his death by the hands of a don (and stuck in a traffic with a deranged cab driver), a boy witnessing the Mars landing on television, an ornithological fantasy built around the mass suicide of migratory birds in Jatinga, corporate slaves suffering from paranoia and information overload, an Egyptian King with a silver fetish, a genetically-engineered monkey threatening mass destruction in Bombay.
The stories of Play on Edward demonstrate crackling intensity and wit without sacrificing an ounce of traditional narrative, plot or pacing. Gupta's strong narrative sinews lend power to stories that reveal in life's most chaotic moments.
Author Profile:
Rohit Gupta was born in Jaipur (1976) and received a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur (1999) before he decided to become a writer. A popular Mid Day columnist, he is the India Correspondent for Boston-based Flak Magazine. His work has appeared in Man's World, The Sunday Observer, Gentleman, and The Week.
Editorial Reviews:
"Rohit Gupta's style hits you like a warehouse fire, big and visceral. His words leap off the page, animated by uncontainable energy- you dn't read a Gupta story so much as you plunge through it."James R.Norton: Mideast Editor of The Christian Science Monitor
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Adventure
, Historical
, Literary
, New Age
, Science
, Short Story
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| From: Vinayak Lohani (vinayaklohani@yahoo.com) |
2003-05-08 |
Gupta's stories are unlike what you would have ever read by an Indian writer in the short story genre. Fast-paced with a lot of gaps for the reader to fill himself and get more involved, one sits tight through a Gupta story. At one time being philosphical about the poignancy of human shackles while being embarrassingly and nakedly hard-hitting at another, its a bold experiment in narrative in the short story genre.
Equpped with wide knowledge of science and being a writer in sci-tech magazines makes Gupta reach even to those people who haven't got a literary predilection but a yearning to make sense of the times they live in.
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| From: Vinayak Lohani (vinayaklohani@yahoo.com) |
2003-05-08 |
Gupta's stories are unlike what you would have ever read by an Indian writer in the short story genre. Fast-paced with a lot of gaps for the reader to fill himself and get more involved, one sits tight through a Gupta story. At one time being philosphical about the poignancy of human shackles while being embarrassingly and nakedly hard-hitting at another, its a bold experiment in narrative in the short story genre.
Equpped with wide knowledge of science and being a writer in sci-tech magazines makes Gupta reach even to those people who haven't got a literary predilection but a yearning to make sense of the times they live in.
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