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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} a Bear for Felicia by Jerry Pinto a Bear for Felicia by Jerry Pinto Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Bear for Felicia by Jerry Pinto A Bear for Felicia by Jerry Pinto. EM and the big HOOM Staking all on gamble of his art, using all the strength of his enormous talent, his natural empathy, Pinto chases the elusive portrait of a mother who simply said of herself that she was mad. Read a Review. By Kiran Desai By Amitav Ghosh. A Bear For Felicia I am brown with a nubbly coat, red button eyes and a black nose, and this is my true story. My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown, with a fringe, a tendency to lose crayons, and a playground of crazy games in her head. Read a Review. By Rachna Shetty By Amrita Bose. Shockwave!: And Other Cyber Stories Zip down the cyber superhighway as these fast-paced, breakthrough stories plunge you into a perhaps not-too-distant future and a thrilling, often chilling, present. It’s a heady cyber-zone where a portal mercilessly demands your soul, a blogger unwittingly sets up an armed conflict with a rapacious alien empire, a cyber-spook reveals an intriguing, hidden past, a ruler controls an entire city through neural networks, teddy bears store intimate technology, and humans and spirits slip through firewalls in minds and machines. Em and the Big Hoom. In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers': swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be. Of how Imelda was courted by Augustine - 'Hello, Buttercup' - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into Em, loving and loathing a world terrified of her extravagant excesses . 'A near-perfect account of a psychologically troubled mother. Touching and funny' Irish Times. 'Delightful. Pinto is quite a genius with dialogue' Guardian. Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics tutor, school librarian and journalist and is now associated with MelJol, an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights. He has edited several anthologies including, most recently, an anthology on his native city, Mumbai. A Bear for Felicia. THIS IS BRAND NEW BOOK.WE PROVIDE 100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: � 2.75 Within United Kingdom. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. A Bear for Felicia. Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR007071687. Greatest Indian Novels: Jerry Pinto's list. 1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. In which an Indian writer revitalises the novel, tells the story of a nation, makes love to the language and writes back at the empire. Then he goes on to win a Booker and becomes a big international star and makes it easier for the next generations. 2. All About H. Hatterr by GV Desani Because this is a book that is so audacious that no one has ever been able to follow it up. No one should try. Not even Desani could. This is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy of India. And laugh out-loud funny. 3. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh So many to choose from - Shadow Lines is also a great favourite - but this one is a favourite: rivers, language, sediment, dolphins. 4. Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar I don't think we do historical novels well but I think this one is a stand-out. What do you do when the other man in your love triangle is God and your soldiers have a default setting that says, "Fight unto defeat" because they've never heard of strategic retreats? 5. Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai A beautiful novel and Nanda Kaul, who resists love and all its blandishments as far as she is able, is one of those quiet and lovely achievements. 6. Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand I could have gone with this one or The Untouchable but I chose this for personal reasons. It was one of the first Indian novels I read and it hit me hard. 7. Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur No one does the small savageries of Indian households better than Manju Kapur and this one is a favourite. 8. Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond I should like to write like this: like a mountain stream, limpid, clear, looking up into an untroubled sky, with small polished stones of love and friendship and abandonment and loneliness and the invention of family. 9. The Fig Tree by Aubrey Menen Penguin brought Menen out again and he was as fresh and funny as he was so many decades ago. 10. The God of Small Things by Arundhathi Roy I remember reading it at one go, not stopping, and being so dazzled by the quality of the writing. Jerry Pinto is the author of Em and the Big Hoom (Aleph Book Company) which won the Hindu Lit for Life Award and the Crossword Award for Fiction and of A Bear for Felicia (Puffin). He co-authored, with Garima Gupta, a graphic novel When Crows are White (Scholastic) and Helen: the life and times of an H-Bomb (Penguin) which won the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema. He is at work on his next novel and has no idea when that will be finished, never mind published, so don't ask. His last book was Hey That's An A, an abecedarium for Tulika. He is translating Daya Pawar's magnificent autobiography, Baluta (Granthali, 1978). A Bear for Felicia. "I am brown with a nubbly coat, red button eyes and a black nose, and this is my true story. My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown, with a fringe, a tendency to lose crayons, and a playground of crazy games in her head. Felicia got me from her mother Stella who got me from her mother Lavinia, so I am actually very old. But Felicia never minded that. Living with Felicia and her toys Tassikia Magintripp Scopittle the electric blue bear, Amaranita Sarsaparilla Gloriosus the doll and Thunderbox Permusin Peterkar the wind-up mouse was going just honey-smooth for me. Then things started to go wrong at home. Very wrong. And then, horror of horrors, Felicia's father Elroy wanted to sell me off to a strange foreign long-legged woman called Urbanie Jenovefa Balaclava because he found out that I am worth a lot of money. So much money that you would need more than a thousand fingers to count it! Would you like to be pulled away from your friends and be sold off, or sent to a musty-fusty museum, however old you are and however much you cost? There was nothing I could do. There was nothing anybody could do. Nobody could save me -- nobody! BUT. SOMEBODY. DID. Who was it? What did they do? Why did they do it? And how, how, HOW? Read my story that Pinto Bear wrote down." "It's quirky, cute and immensely charming"-. Rachna Shetty in The Sunday Mid-day. "A great read."- Amrita Bose in Time Out Mumbai. "Pinto's narrative is through the eyes of the bear as he moves from one generation to the next, changing name and gender, too. To Felicia's grandmother, Lavinia, he is Fatty, while Felicia's mother calls the bear Betty. A teddy bear is a girl's best friend. As Pinto puts himself in the bear's shoes, what comes out is sheer magic." Age : 5 and up Language : English Format : Paperback Number of Pages : 104 Publisher : Puffin Books Author : Jerry Pinto ISBN-13 : 9780143330653..
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