TY - BOOK AU - Tharoor, Shashi TI - The five-dollar smile: fourteen early stories and a farce in two acts SN - 9780143424314 U1 - 823 PY - 2015/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. KW - Manners and customs N2 - The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, which deal with very adult subjects: death, deceit, loss, hypocrisy, honour. Sensitive, compelling and persuasive, these stories, written for the most part in Shashi Tharoor’s late teens and early twenties, reveal an already formidable talent. Rounding off the collection is a marvellously inventive play set in the time of the Emergency ER -