{"product_id":"staying-on-9780226743493","title":"Staying On","description":"In this \u003cb\u003esequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Raj Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eStaying On\u003c\/i\u003e won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eStaying On\u003c\/i\u003e far transcends the events of its central action. . . . [The work] should help win for Scott . . . the reputation he deserves-as one of the best novelists to emerge from Britain's silver age.\"-Robert Towers, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"-Jean G. Zorn, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India. . . . No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott.\"-Paul Gray, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eStaying On\u003c\/i\u003e provides a sort of postscript to [Scott's] deservedly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Raj Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . He has, as it were, summoned up the Raj's ghost in \u003ci\u003eStaying On\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . It is the story of the living death, in retirement, and the final end of a walk-on character from the quartet. . . . Scott has completed the task of covering in the form of a fictional narrative the events leading up to India's partition and the achievement of independence in 1947. It is, on any showing, a creditable achievement.\"-Malcolm Muggeridge, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePaul Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (1920-78) was a British novelist best known for the tetralogy \u003ci\u003eThe Raj Quartet, \u003c\/i\u003e published by the University of Chicago Press. Scott was drafted into the British Army during World War II and was stationed in India, an experience which shaped much of his literary work. The University of Chicago Press has also published his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Birds of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Love Pavilion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSix Days in Marapore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStaying On\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter of which won the Booker Prize for 1977.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668935938322,"sku":"9780226743493","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_64b4964d-5bc9-4ba9-9c93-88a9392c7fb1.jpg?v=1733752873","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/staying-on-9780226743493","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}