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...undergoes the first of his metamorphoses by becoming Rukhsana, dressing in girl's clothing as bait to blackmail clueless British colonial officers of confused sexuality. Kunzru's alcohol-soaked collision of English stiffness and Indian sensuality has a Dickensian slant (though with more buggery than one remembers from The Pickwick Papers). After an apocalyptic tiger hunt, Rukhsana takes refuge in Bombay, where by day he learns English and by night rules the red lights as a half-breed hustler called Pretty Bobby...
...there is also the matter of getting value for your entertainment dollar. Rated this way, books usually do much better than movies. You can get weeks of pleasure from The Pickwick Papers for the cost of a ticket to Space Jam. At $26, though, Airframe is a pretty expensive movie on paper. Why not wait for the real thing...
...into the world of books--whatever I could lay my hands on. I first read Little Women and that gave me this sick taste for books and until I got married, I was reading constantly. I didn't read authors as such, but certain books influenced me. For example, Pickwick Papers. And Anna Karenina, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn. You know, these things young people read. I must have read these books four or five times each, plus a whole lot of other things--Maupassant in English and Russian authors. You know, whoever I could lay my hands on. I think...
...parade permits but enjoy full city support, including police protection and street cleanup. Proponents of the new law argue that the issue goes beyond racial discrimination during Mardi Gras. Some of the most important krewes have direct ties to such hallowed hideaways as the Boston, Louisiana and Pickwick clubs, where important business deals are often hammered out. Says Taylor: "The Mardi Gras issue is only a smoke screen. There are no crowds of blacks waiting to jump on floats, but they are waiting for a cut of the economic...
...satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...