My days (Record no. 345820)
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
control field | 20211201202652.0 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9788185986241 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 823 NAR |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Narayan, R. K. |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | My days |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Madras |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Indian Thought Publication |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2006 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 216 |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | My days The second section deals with the obstacles he encountered as a young writer, how the manuscript of his first book Swami and Friends caught the attention of Graham Greene; their life long friendship; his falling in love and marriage to Rajam, the birth of their daughter and the poignant tale of his wife’s untimely death that left him devastated and his coming to terms with it, and his experiments with psychics.<br/>In the last section, he gives a detailed account of his overcoming the writer’s block, and the writing of The English Teacher. He continues describing his literary journey and his evolution as a fine writer. He writes about how he worked on his novel and short stories. About his visit to the United states of America at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation,how he stayed on for a couple of months at Berkeley and wrote The Guide. Along the way he tells of his experiences with the filming of The Guide by the noted actor Dev Anand. In the last few chapters we see an established, contended writer known worldwide for his characteristic simple,lucid style and gentle irony… |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Autobiography |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Novelists, Indic |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Intellectual life |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Laxman. R. K. (ill.) |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Total renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2021-12-01 | 300.00 | 2 | 1 | 823 NAR | 163740 | 2022-11-06 | 2022-09-11 | 2021-12-01 | Books |