Out of India by Michael Foss
Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss' childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britian under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here, beautifully evoked, is a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly harsh schooling; a bleak, dank landscape;and a sense of permanent cold and a savage hunger even for dreadful food. All of this was suddenly changed for the sub-continent's jumble of conflicting sights and sounds and smells: the vital, stinking, hot, nosiy, crowded streets; the calm, quiet grace of Moghul architecture; the ancient Hindu kingdoms reduced to stones in the roots of trees; the monumental Victorian buildings that echoed British power; the attitudes of the Raj; the squalor admid grandeur, and extreme poverty contrasted with self-consicious majesty and pomp.
Michael Foss was educated in England and America. He has travelled widely and, after a spell as a lecturer at an American university, he settled in London and took up writing full time.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854798060 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854798065 |
| Title | Out of India |
| Author | Michael Foss |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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