The book of chocolate saints /
Thayil, Jeet, 1959-
The book of chocolate saints / Jeet Thayil. - 501 pages ; 23 cm.
Francis Newton Xavier has lived a life of excess in pursuit of an uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems, which embody a flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit, are to be celebrated at a final show, and party, in New Delhi. Approaching late middle-age, in a body ravaged by hard living, Xavier leaves Manhattan with his partner Goody Lol, and his journey to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de si©·cle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Dismas - Xavier must move into an uncertain future of salvation and damnation.
9789386021038 (hbk.)
Poets--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
PR9499.3.T536 / B66 2018
823.92 THA / 013537
The book of chocolate saints / Jeet Thayil. - 501 pages ; 23 cm.
Francis Newton Xavier has lived a life of excess in pursuit of an uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems, which embody a flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit, are to be celebrated at a final show, and party, in New Delhi. Approaching late middle-age, in a body ravaged by hard living, Xavier leaves Manhattan with his partner Goody Lol, and his journey to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de si©·cle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Dismas - Xavier must move into an uncertain future of salvation and damnation.
9789386021038 (hbk.)
Poets--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
PR9499.3.T536 / B66 2018
823.92 THA / 013537