Yes, that's the title of my new book, and it is available only here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FJNV9M
and reduced for 2 days to $1.99
Here is the Preface:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FJNV9M
and reduced for 2 days to $1.99
Here is the Preface:
It was at the Stonecoast Writers Conference in Maine, in the Summer of 1990, that novelists Monica Wood and Denise Gess said to me, after reading my novel’s summary and the first 30 or so pages: “There is material here for four novels. You would be wasting it by compressing it all into just one book.”
And now, after many years of having published The Revised Kama Sutra, I realize that they may have been right. The Revised Kama Sutra is many novels combined into one: a novel of childhood, adolescence, an adult quest, and the story of a Third World male with an American Dream. Professional reviewers have described the novel as containing a Dickensian childhood, a story of pubescence and adolescence with elements of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy’s Complaint in it. (Incidentally, some of the most enthusiastic and genuine reviews for the novel came from middle-class Indian reviewers who said that this was truly a story of a post-Independence Indian male, the story of the middle-class, with the veils off, a story that is completely defiant of, and uncensored by the rules that limit most other fiction by Indian writers.)
I also realize that The Revised Kama Sutra is faced with a drawback as an e-book, one that it did not face as a printed book. Unlike ordinary printed books, which you flip through until something in the book catches your attention, makes you laugh, or hypnotises you with its prose, an e-book gives you just the first 30 or so pages as a free sample. And if those don’t connect with you instantly, you abandon it for a different book.
Which is why, in this novel, which is an adaptation of The Revised Kama Sutra, I have decided to concentrate on the universal story of puberty, childhood, and coming of age, giving just enough historical background to the character so as to bring it and the Indian setting to life. (This historical background may again fill up the sample, so I have priced the book relatively low so as to encourage would-be readers to take a chance, regardless of the sample.)
I hope I succeed, because this story, even if it is just a part of the original book, is very dear to me.
And, as I have met readers who have told me they have read The Revised Kama Sutra more than once, and have returned to favorite passages again and again, I don’t think that reading The Whole World in His Pants will diminish your pleasure should you later decide to try The Revised Kama Sutra.
And here is the Table of Contents:
Bonus Excerpt: The Killing of an Author
And here is the Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
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