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Sweet Shop

₹ 115

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  • 32 Quality Checks
  • Spine : • The spine is undamaged, however there are noticeable creases.
    • Dried up Spine
  • Inside : • Could be light toned pages
    • Highlighted spots may be present
  • Overall : • Designated usage on front & back cover
    • Ex-library, Sunned, The dust jacket isn't applicable for this criteria
    • Good books are perfectly in usable condition with all the pages intact with general signs of usage like some wrinkles on the cover page or spine or some very slight damage on the cover.
  • 32 Quality Checks
  • Spine : • Intact Spine
    • Least Creasing
  • Inside : • Some of the pages may be frayed
    • Rarely marked spot could be present
    • No underlining or highlighting of text
  • Overall : • Visible spots due to long shelf life
    • Unused edition
    • Clean Books in which very slight signs of usage appear like very fine wrinkles on the cover page, and slight yellowness of edges of pages.

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Highlights

  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 192

    Pages
  • 9780670091867

    ISBN
  • 144 mm

    Width
  • 220 mm

    Height
  • 169 gram

    Weight
  • HARDCOVER

    Binding
  • 2019

    Publish Date
  • 11 mm

    Spine Width

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    Description

    Arising from visits to sweet shops in the by-lanes of Calcutta, these poems brim with the excitement of what it means to discover, marvel at, and taste the universe. As the first line of the book states, 'The whole universe is here'. Showcasing the edible, the intimate, and the singular, this collection, like the sweet-shop shelf, is characterized by 'an unnoticed balance of gravity and play'.rnrn'Chaudhuri's experiments in poetic alchemy turn sweet nothings into ontological reflections. These odes to the pleasures of faltu-the unnecessary - are pungent, chewy, and succulent.' -Charles Bernsteinrnrn'The lexical vitality, magically achieved through words which are...  Read More

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    Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962, and grew up in Bombay. He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H. Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar. He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1992-95, and Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, until April 1999, where he taught the Commonwealth and International Literatures paper of the English Tripos. He was on the faculty of the School of the Arts, Columbia University, for the Fall semester, 2002. He was appointed Samuel Fischer Guest Professor of Literature at Free University, Berlin, for the winter term 2005.

    He is now Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.

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