Volume 40, Number 10 · May 27, 1993
Sitting Pretty
By Anita Desai
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
Harper Collins, 1,349 pp., $30.00
The character Vikram Seth chooses in his novel A Suitable Boy to represent himself is not one of the central characters; it is Amit the poet who 'was sitting pretty in his father's house and doing nothing that counted as real work,' which happens to be the writing of an historical novel. In an uncharacteristically confiding moment, he compares writing fiction to Indian music.
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