How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed
by Rickover, H.G
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Written in poetic and affecting prose, Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent's familiar literary lights. Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul.
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- Title
- How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed
- Author
- Rickover, H.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1557507171
- ISBN 13
- 9781557507174
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis, MD
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- BZDB185 Americana; 19th century; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 1557507171 EAN: 9781557507174 Rickover, H.G. How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed
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