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9780349140025 | Gardners Books, July 25, 2013, cover price $14.55
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9781619021044 | Counterpoint, February 12, 2013, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Like Jhumpa Lahriri, Monica Ali and Arundhati Roy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has long captured the Western-Indian experience.
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9781582437927 | Counterpoint, January 17, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In this expansive story collection, acclaimed writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation on East and West.
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9780194792271 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 24, 2008), cover price $269.50 | About this edition: Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more.
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9781593760281 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Nine vignettes offer a view of lives lived in between the cultures of London, Delhi, Hollywood, and New York--all creatively linked to portray a rich life filled with an international cast of characters.
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9781593760694 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 30, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author's first novel in nine years offers nine vignettes of lives lived in between the cultures of London, Delhi, Hollywood, and New York--all creatively linked to portray a rich life filled with an international cast of characters.
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9780325002958 | Heinemann Drama, October 17, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Susan Katz, in conversation with some of the top screenwriters working today, gives us an insider's look into the art, craft and business of screenwriting.
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9780688063825 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Reflects a personal insight into how the country affects its inhabitants
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9781582430522 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience.
9780671642211 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1987, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience.
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9781887178501 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of fourteen short fiction stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Heat and Dust ranges in settings from the bazaars of India to Manhattan high-rises, with each story weaving the universal quandaries of the human experience.
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9781582430348 | Counterpoint, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of fictional short stories explores social life and customs in New York and New Dehli.
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9780060121938 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1973, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student.
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9781582430331 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student.
9780671643782 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student.
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9780688071844 | William Morrow & Co, August 1, 1987, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A heroine whose passion leads her to a road of self-destruction sets off on an idealistic quest--following a would-be world leader who promises a better future for everyone .
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9781582430324 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twins Harriet and Michael - spoiled and wealthy - have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance.
9780671663629 | Reprint edition (Fireside, August 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Twins Harriet and Michael Wishwell embark on a search for self that leads to India, where they both fall in love with the charismatic son of the 'Transcendental Internationalism' leader, with catastrophic results
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9780844663357 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1988, cover price $29.75
9780060121976 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1976, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In a narrative intermingling past and present, a young English woman journeys to India to reconstruct the behavior of her grandfather's first wife, Olivia, who left husband and friends in 1923 out of love for an Indian prince
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9781582430157 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 16, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a narrative intermingling past and present, a young English woman journeys to India to reconstruct the behavior of her grandfather's first wife, Olivia, who left husband and friends in 1923 out of love for an Indian prince
9780671646578 | Touchstone Books, September 15, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues.
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9780745127156 | Chivers Audio Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Each book in the "New Longman Literature" series provides the complete, original text and a full range of support materials.
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9780688020354 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Traces three generations of a family as, in their search for love and understanding, they come under the influence of an unusual therapist/guru
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9781582430164 | Counterpoint, May 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Traces three generations of a family as, in their search for love and understanding, they come under the influence of an unusual therapist/guru
9780671747398 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Traces three generations of a family as, in their search for love and understanding, they come under the influence of an unusual therapist/guru
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9780385477222 | Doubleday, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Traces the lives of four generations of one family scattered over New York, England, and India, whose involvement with a mysterious spiritual leader tests their ties to each other
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9780385477239 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Traces the lives of four generations of one family scattered over New York, England, and India, whose involvement with a mysterious spiritual leader tests their ties to each other
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9780385468879 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 1, 1994), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Angel--dark, plain, introverted, and submissive--becomes wholly consumed by her cousin, Lara, and as Lara's life spins in increasingly erratic circles, Angel's passionate devotion to her remains undiminished
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9780822006022 | Reissue edition (Cliff Notes, April 1, 1993), cover price $4.25
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9780385468695 | Doubleday, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Angel--dark, plain, introverted, and submissive--becomes wholly consumed by her cousin, Lara, and as Lara's life spins in increasingly erratic circles, Angel's passionate devotion to her remains undiminished
Product Description: Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something to be desired...read more
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9780671683412 | Reprint edition (Fireside, January 1, 1990), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place.
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9780671683382 | Reissue edition (Fireside, January 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
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9780671683399 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, January 1, 1990), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Follows the experiences of two contrasting families in India, and their uneasy alliances with the British
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9780671679798 | 1 edition (Fireside, June 1, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Paperback, 1989 A Fireside book, number line 1-10.
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9780671683405 | 1 edition (Fireside, June 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 1962.
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9780393008517 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1985), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Prem, a newly married, young teacher in New Delhi, finds the responsibilities of being a householder perplexing, daily life with his absurd wife bewildering, and confrontations with his headmaster unnerving
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