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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: V.S. NaipaulPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library Dimensions: Width: 10.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.60cm Weight: 0.198kg ISBN: 9781529013030ISBN 10: 1529013038 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 20 August 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience -- Dennis Potter * The Times * Naipaul's travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century -- Martin Amis A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience -- Dennis Potter * The Times * Naipaul’s travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century -- Martin Amis Naipaul's travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century -- Martin Amis A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience -- Dennis Potter * The Times * Author InformationV. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of non-fiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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