title: Poems by a Regular Guy
author: Scott Bourne
description: Scott lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two boys. He is a lover of the arts, his favorite hockey team, and good music. Scott enjoys landscaping his yard, writing poetry, and will never turn down a good microbrew.
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  _Staying On_  
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  Paul Scott  
  Arrow (1984)  
  Rating: | ★★★★☆  
    
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  **Product Description**
  
  Instead of returning “home” when he retired, Tusker, once a Colonel in the
  British Army, and his wife Lily chose to remain in the small hill town of
  Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the
  days of the Empire.
  
  **From the Publisher**
  
  7 1.5-hour cassettes
  
  **STAYING ON**
  
  by Paul Scott
  
  _a novel_
  
  **THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS**
  
  _To my old colleague and friend_
  
   _Roland Gant_
  
   _whom I regard and thank_
  
  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Bourne Company for permission to quote from
  the lyrics of “These Foolish Things,” © Copyright 1935 by Boosey and Co. Ltd.,
  Copyright renewed, rights for the United States of America and Canada assigned
  to Bourne Co. New York, New York 10036; and to Mrs. Sally Simpson for
  permission to quote from the lyrics of “Chloe,” Copyright-Villa Moret, Inc.
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Cop