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The book of chocolate saints / Jeet Thayil.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Aleph, 2017Copyright date: ℗♭2017Description: 501 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789386021038 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92 THA 23 013537
LOC classification:
  • PR9499.3.T536 B66 2018
Summary: 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.
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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.

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