simoes frank (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xvi + 352 Illus.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Sanat Surti (illustrator). Contents A cautious introduction. Prologue liberation. Goa. 1. All in the family. 2. Heart and home. 3. Boon companions. 4. Boa festas food feni and fun. Epilogue. Alba and simplicio. On a storm swept September afternoon in Goa Frank Simoes finally found what he had been searching for so many years that perfect acre by the sea. And there he began to build his dream house Rockheart. This book began as the story of his labours but eventually became one Goan's discovery of his idyllic native land. It is peopled by a colourful coast of characters ranging from Leopold da Gama Rose who saved himself from a fate worse than death by hiding beneath his mother's skirts to Remo the famous rock musician from Felix Xavier Fernando the confidant of cobras to Barty and Bostao surely the world's only feni fuelled car washing experts. This is more than just a travel book. Thanks to Frank Simoes perceptive eye and abiding love for all things Goan it is a delightful finely etched portrait of a people and their way of life. 318 pp.

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.

Zustand: New.