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Staying On

By: Paul Scott
Narrated by: Richard Brown
Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary

In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage.

Staying On won the Booker Prize and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.
©1998 Paul Scott (P)2010 Random House

Critic Reviews

"Scott's vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver cross-hatching in the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy." ( The New York Times Book Review)

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