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portada The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
592
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.5 x 16.0 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.74 kg.
ISBN
1400079802
ISBN13
9781400079803

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

Patrick French (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul - French, Patrick

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Synopsis "The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul"

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul' s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul's first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul's struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair. Naipaul's extraordinary gift--producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction--is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.

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