Frank Unedited - Hardcover

Frank Unedited (With CD)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Contents: Foreword. The Byculla boy. 2. The lord of the manor. 3. The persuader. 4. The jaundiced eye. 5. The portrait painter. 6. The satirist. 7. The reluctant traveller. 8. The gourmand. 9. The drinking man. 10. The Bombaywallah. 11. The Saraswat Brahmin Roman Catholic Goan. 12. The storyteller. Epilogue: the red typewriter. Chronology. Index. When Frank Simoes in his own words gatecrashed the advertising party in the sixties his bosses at S.H. Benson precursor of Ogilvy Benson and Mather knew they had found a young man of talent. A decade later Simoes set up his own agency and went on to create campaigns like Vimal and Raymonds which have probably set a record of sorts by being in existence till today. Twenty years after the birth of Frank Simoes advertising heedless to the calls of family and friends to lie down until the feeling goes away he abandoned the advertising profession for a full time career as a writer. In this book we bring together the best of Frank Simoes: as ad man as inveterate traveller and biographer of the two places he loved most Mumbai and Goa as a great gourmand and connoisseur of good feni and Scotch and as an irreverent witty and often scathing chronicler of our times. This is a book you can visit at different times in different seasons and come away each time enriched. 352 pp. Artikel-Nr. 50817

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