The Five Dollar Smile

The Five Dollar Smile
First edition cover
AuthorShashi Tharoor
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
1990

The Five Dollar Smile: And Other Stories is a short story collection by Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, published in 1990 by Viking Press.[1][2][3] The stories collected were written in the author's late teens and initially published in various magazines and newspapers including JS, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Eve's Weekly, Youth Times, Gentleman, The New Review and Cosmopolitan.

List of Stories

  • "The Five-Dollar Smile"
  • "The Boutique"
  • "How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink"
  • "Village Girl, City Girl: A Duet"
  • "The Temple Thief"
  • "The Simple Man"
  • "The Professor's Daughter"
  • "Friends"
  • "The Pyre"
  • "The Political Murder"
  • "The Other Man"
  • "Auntie Rita"
  • "The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer"
  • "The Death of a Schoolmaster"

References

  1. ^ "The Five Dollar Smile: And Other Stories by Shashi Tharoor". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 240, no. 22. 31 May 1993. p. 41. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  2. ^ Agarwal, Ramlal (Spring 1994). "India -- The Five-Dollar Smile by Shashi Tharoor". World Literature Today. 68 (2): 432 – via ProQuest.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Joanna M. (July 1993). "Short stories -- The Five-Dollar Smile and Other Stories by Shashi Tharoor". Library Journal. 118 (12): 124 – via ProQuest.
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