All My Boys and other Stories

$9.90

$11.00

In stock

Free & Quick Delivery Worldwide

All my Boys and Other Stories is in two parts. The first part unfolding the characters of all my boys through the eyes of the observer protagonist who happens to be their generic uncle and mentor to some extent, though transactionally a landlord as they are his lodgers is essentially in the profile and portrait mode. This part captures adolescent psychology and their group dynamics, their relationship with their parents, mostly over phone, their growth and slippage chart. The second part are stories proper; stories are for the most part psychological, sociological. One story â€œSong to Fellowshipâ€™ is nostalgic, celebratory, and spiritual. One story is about the visit of a mad mystic to heaven where he takes to the pulpit to teach the gods to bring about a relational interface with the mundance and begin a new chapter in the evolution of human kind. The last two stories, Sati and Parbati rework in extenso and in depth the mythic frames on the Feminine, the enshrined cultural semiotics on it in India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Som P. Ranchan

Som. P. Ranchan is an unusual signature in contemporary writing, a poet, literateur, myth maker/cartographer, folk lorist, therapist, critic he has books in all these categories. lately he has taken to story writing. All my boys and othr stories is the second in the genre, the first being O'er Travell'd Roads (Har-Anand). Som P. Ranchan was Professor and Head of English for a decade at H.P. University Shimla and held numerous other positions such as Dean of Social Sciences, of Arts and of Languages, etc. He has been visiting Professor too at Indian Universities and abroad. He has had many fellowships: Fulbright, Smith-mundt of Hazen Foundation, University of Wisconsin, H.P. Academy, HRD, Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Som P. Ranchan is known for his renaissance rangings.