World is What it is

Patrick French

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: PICADOR

Publication Date : 04/04/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Researched with the full co-operation of its Nobel Prize winning subject, this is the first major biography of one of our greatest writers. French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections.

Publisher's description:

Offers an account of the most compelling literary figures, V. S. Naipaul. This book examines early privations, Naipaul's first recollections, and his life within a displaced community. He describes how, once in England, depression struck with great force, and the ways in which Naipaul's first wife helped him to cope with his 'double exile'.

ISBN: 9780330433501