Scenes from a Writer's Life

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  • Scenes from a Writer's Life Book Detail

  • Author : Ruskin Bond
  • Release Date : 1997
  • Publisher : Penguin Books India
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 214
  • ISBN 13 : 9780140270662
  • File Size : 78,78 MB

Scenes from a Writer's Life by Ruskin Bond PDF Summary

Book Description: Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his 'formative years, ' till the age of twenty-one. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relation between his parents. Their estrangement while he is still a child leaves him with a life-long sense of insecurity. His unhappiness is exacerbated by the untimely death of his father -- his emotional anchor - when the author is just ten. Forced to stay with his mother and his stepfather, both of whom are absorbed in their own worlds, he tries to fend off his loneliness through books and the company of a few friends. Left for the most part to himself, the gentle dreamer realizes very early - as 'a pimply adolescent' - his calling as a writer. His first book, The Room on the Roof, materializes in England, the land of his forefathers, where he is sent to make a career for himself. literary prize, the author's yearning for India is too powerful to let him remain abroad for long. He returns and begins a writing career which has spanned four decades, and earned him a place in the pantheon of great Indian writers. 'Ruskin Bond has a magnificently simple and immensely moving style, compassion and a love and reverence for life.' --Indian Express 'With a subtle sense of irony punctuated by his own inimicably pungent humour, Bond masters the art of conveying the drama and pathos of ordinary lives.' --The Telegrap

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