Randy Boyagoda
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Divine Comedy of our times."—John Irving, author of The World According to Garp
"This book is a miracle."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021
Following Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor's Choice and
...Author
Language
English
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Description
Prin is a forty-year-old English professor who lives in Toronto. Following a cancer diagnosis, he resolves to be a better husband, father, and Catholic. He has a chance to do so when he learns that his university is going to shut down unless it comes up with a new purpose. He's asked to figure this out in the company of a Chinese real estate magnate and his flirty ex-girlfriend while also dealing with the demands of having four small children, a skeptical...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Beggar's Feast is a novel about a man who lives in defiance of fate. Sam Kandy was born in 1889 to low prospects in a Ceylon village and died one hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village, a self-made shipping magnate, and father of sixteen, three times married and twice widowed. In four parts, this enthralling novel tells Sam's story from his boyhood - when his parents, convinced by his horoscope that he would be a blight upon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Neuhaus's writing, activism, and connections to people of power in religion, politics, and culture secured a place for himself and his ideas at the center of recent American history. His life and ideas placed him at the vanguard of events and debates across the political and cultural spectrum. Boyagoda examines Neuhaus's multi-faceted life and reveals to the public what made him tick and why.
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