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Title:
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul |
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Authors:
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Patrick French |
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ISBN-10(13):
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1400044057 |
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Publisher:
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Knopf |
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Publication date:
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2008-11-04 |
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Language:
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English |
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Price:
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$19.80 |
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Description:
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Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private
papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's
formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous account of the most
compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Beginning in rich
and evocative detail in Trinidad, where V.S. Naipaul was born into an
Indian family, French examines early privations, Naipaul's first
recollections, his life within a displaced community, and his talent
and fierce ambition at school, which won him a scholarship to Oxford at
the age of seventeen. He describes how, once in England, homesickness
and depression struck with great force, and the ways in which Naipaul's
first wife helped him to cope with his 'double exile'. They were to
stay, tenuously, together for over four decades, even after Naipaul
embarked on an intense, twenty-five year affair that was to inspire a
second wave of breathtaking creation.Naipaul's extraordinary gift -
producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction - is
born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots Patrick French
traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight that does
full justice to this enigmatic genius.
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