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Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. In a Free State 0.43. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781400030552
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread.The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have. The New York Times Book ReviewNo writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English peopleBobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious compound wifeare driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amins Uganda. And the farther Naipauls protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best. No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" Y117 -- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital Y111 . But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. Y111-12, 120, 130-1, 150, 178, 220-40 And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781400030552
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