Speedpost (book) explained
Speedpost |
Author: | Shobha De |
Country: | India |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Essay |
Publisher: | Viking Books |
Release Date: | 1999 |
Speedpost is a book written in 1999 by Shobha De. The book is a series of letters to her six children, either grown, or nearly so. The subjects she approaches through the medium of letters include: growing pains and adolescent anxieties about love, sex and friendship; religion and God; the challenge of being a responsible parent, death, remembrance and family traditions, the place of career, sex and of values in the lives of her children.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Notes and References
- Bose . Brinda . 2000-01-03 . Book review: Shobha De's 'Speedpost' . . 2024-09-18 . https://archive.today/20240918102524/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/20000103-book-review-of-shobha-de-speedpost-776855-2000-01-02 . 2024-09-18.
- News: Banker . Ashok . Ashok Banker . 1999 . Penguin Books India: Speedpost . 2024-09-18 . Indian Review of Books . 28 . Google Books.
- Patidar . Renu . 2013 . Shobha De's Contribution to Post-colonial Indian English Fiction . PhD . . 193–195 . .
- Book: Muteba, Bertha . World Authors, 2000–2005 . 2007 . . 978-0-8242-1077-9 . Curry . Jennifer . New York . 152 . Ramm . David . Rich . Mari . Rolls . Albert . . 2024-09-18.
- Book: Krishnan, Mini . Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English . 2005 . Routledge . 978-0415-278850 . Benson . Eugene . 2 . Abingdon . Letters (India) . ProQuest 2137908344 . Conolly . L.W..