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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by French, Pat
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780330440097
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The World Is What It Is: the Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
- Item Height
- 196mm
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 131mm
- Item Weight
- 436g
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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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.
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Pan Macmillan
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Book Title
The World Is What It Is: the Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
576 Pages
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Item Height
196mm
Item Width
131mm
Item Weight
436g
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United Kingdom
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