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Staying On

Staying On

A Novel

by Paul Scott
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/1998
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In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979. "Staying On far transcends the events of its central action...[The work] should help win for Scott ...the reputation he deserves--as one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age."--Robert Towers, Newsweek "Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy."--Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review "A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott."--Paul Gray, Time
ISBN:
9780226743493
9780226743493
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
222
Dimensions (mm):
278x154x17mm
Weight:
0.67kg
Paul Scott

Paul Scott is an artist, author and educator known for pioneering research into the graphic development of vitreous surfaces. His characteristic artworks can be found in public spaces and collections around the globe - including the V&A London, the National Museum Stockholm, National Kunstindustrimuseet Oslo, the Museum of Art and Design in New York - and in Vietnam as part of the Hanoi Mosaic Mural.

He was awarded a PhD by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2010, and is Professor of Ceramic Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) Norway. Paul Scott is a founding member of AIR (Artists Interaction and Representation - the UK's largest representative body for artists) and member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

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