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A Bend in the River

by V S Naipaul

A Bend in the River Cover

ISBN13: 9780679722021
ISBN10: 0679722025
Condition: Standard
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

Review:

"For sheer abundance of talent, there ca hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." —The New York Times Book Review

"Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." —Elizabeth Hardwick

About the Author

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After fouryears at Oxford he began to write, and has since published over twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, and The Enigma of Arrival, all available in Vintage.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679722021
Editor:
Naipaul, V. S.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Author:
Naipaul, V. S.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Africa
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
India
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Political fiction
Subject:
East Indians
Subject:
East Indians - Africa
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series Volume:
89-269
Publication Date:
March 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
279
Dimensions:
8.10x5.18x.64 in. .47 lbs.

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