by Paul Scott · Avon Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780380460458
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«Staying On» is the historical fiction novel by Paul Scott, published by Avon Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
After India's independence, Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy decide to stay in Pankot. Lucy, tired of pleasing her husband, asserts her own independence; Scott portrays the tensions among the British of the Raj and the mix of loneliness, anger and affection in their marriage.
Fifth installment of The Raj Quartet series, winner of the Booker Prize in 1977. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1979, with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.
For readers of literary and historical fiction about India and the end of the British Empire.
Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not received during his lifetime.
