The Writer and the World
17 June 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume.
With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about...
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17 June 2011
544 pages
9780330523691
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
How few writers there are, if any, who share his sense of mission and moral authority, who have his willingness to learn and to travel and his miraculous gift of language.Observer
All [of these essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer.Spectator