A Writer's People
22 March 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.
For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose, then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to...
Details
22 March 2012208 pages
9780330470537Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Essential reading . . . it offers the insights and observations – on literature, history and cultural sensibility – of an honest and truly global thinker.Evening Standard
The greatest writer now living in Britain. His courage in seeing and telling the truth represents a level of high seriousness that has all but vanished.Sunday Times
Naipaul has a sharp visual sense . . . And then there is his chiselled prose, elegant and economical: who, now living, writes as well as he?Financial Times
