by Paul Scott · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582077188
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«Staying On» is Paul Scott's novel, published by Longman Literature in paperback (288 pages, in English).
After Indian independence, Colonel Tusker and his wife, Lucy Smalley, remain in the Pankot hills, clinging to a world that no longer exists. Tired of living to please him, Lucy tries to find her own space, and daily routine gradually reveals the loneliness, resentment and affection of their long marriage.
Fifth title in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet series; it won the Booker Prize in 1977. This Longman Literature edition includes an introduction, notes and classroom activities.
For students of English literature working on the novel in the classroom, with supporting material and activities.
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.
