About this title: This novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1977, is a coda to "The Raj Quartet". It is set in the new India of 1972, where an elderly couple--Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy (minor characters in the "Quartet"--have remained to live out their lives in Pankot, the former military station. Tusker's death prompts Lucy to remember and reveal the ironies and melancholy of their uncommunicative marriage.
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Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Acceptable. Paperback, First Avon Printing, 1979, cover has a corner crunch and a corner bend, text is clean and tanned, spine is tight, ships within 24 hr. sku G 10 D. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780380460458ISBN:0380460459
Description: Good. 236 pp; some cover creasing, light edge wear; This novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1977, is a coda to "The Raj Quartet". It is set in the new India of 1972, where an elderly couple--Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy (minor characters in the "Quartet"--have remained to live out their lives in Pankot, the former military station. Tusker's death prompts Lucy to remember and reveal the ironies and melancholy of their uncommunicative marriage. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780688032050ISBN:0688032052
Description: Good in Good jacket. 245-Z Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Staying On is a novel which is at times very funny, but ultimately it's very sad. Tusker and Lucy are an English couple who remained in India after the country becomes independent in 1947. The book is set in 1972, ostensibly on one day, but the story of their entire courtship and life together, especially the last few months, unfolds. Tusker, who has ruled the household roost, is unwell. Lucy is afraid he might die, and then what will become of her? She has no real idea of their financial situation, and she has no real friends. She longs for England where she is sure she would be more at home, but in truth, she has no friends or family there either. Tusker does have a friend, Mr. Bhoolabhoy, to who he refers as Billy-Boy, married to the ample and domineering hotel owner. Mrs. Bhoolabhoy is engaged in financial machinations around the sale of the hotel and has no qualms abour kicking Tusher and Lucy out of a bungalow they rent on the hotel grounds. The story plays out as expected, and at the end, you're left with questions not only about the vividly drawn characters but about England's role in India and the the relevance of the remnant of its culture that continues to exist there."
"I would probably give this 3.5 stars if I could. Staying On is Scott's award winner and continues with the lives of a British couple first me in the Raj Quartet, who chose to stay on in India after British Independence. The book takes place in the 70s after they have stayed on in India for some time. Either Scott or his characters are a little more bitter, biased and disappointed than they had seemed in the Quartet. I am not certain whether Scott is less generous or whether he is trying to portray the characters accurately. I still think it is an excellent book, however, even if I cannot love the characters as much as some I met in his earlier books."
"I really liked this book a lot, but I am not sure if it would be as enjoyable without reading the quartet first. Funny in parts, but in the end very sad
i am loving this so far. I am a long time fan of the Raj Quartet. i loved the books, and then the PBS series was my constant sewing companion for years."
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