The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
22 March 2012Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With a preface by the author.
V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction – two novels and a collection of stories – that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour.
The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s...
Details
22 March 2012560 pages
9781447210078Imprint: Picador
Reviews
As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.New York Review of Books
V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.Kingsley Amis, Spectator
