Scences from a Writer's Life

Name: Scences from a Writer's Life
Price: 8.55 USD
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ISBN: 9780140270662

ISBN-10: 0140270663

ISBN-13: 9780140270662

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ruskin Bond

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Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his 'formative years, ' till the age of twenty-one. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relation between his parents. Their estrangement while he is still a child leaves him with a life-long sense of insecurity. His unhappiness is exacerbated by the untimely death of his father -- his emotional anchor - when the author…