The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul;The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul - Softcover
Since the acclaim accorded his early novels The Mystic Masseur and A House for Mr Biswas, Trinidad's VS Naipaul has been one of the giants of world literature, winning the Nobel Prize in 2001. Drawing on exclusive access to the writer's private papers and personal recollections, and infused with knowledge of Naipaul's vast body of work, this major biography offers a lucid and frank portrait of this elusive, outspoken and at times curmudgeonly genius. Off-mint.
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- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0330440098
- ISBN 13 9780330440097
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Researched with the full co-operation of its Nobel Prize-winning subject, this is the first major biography of one of our greatest writers 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 50 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 17. 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, 25-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. Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780330440097
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