V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer

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V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer is written by Gillian Dooley and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1570035873 (ISBN 10) and 9781570035876 (ISBN 13).

Offering a survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate forLiterature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to thewriter widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds specialsatisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers.Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look at Naipaul's literary career, fromMiguel Street to Magic Seeds. From readings of his fiction, nonfiction, travel books, and volumes of letters, she elucidates theconnections between Naipaul's personal experiences as a Hindu Indianfrom Trinidad living an expatriate life and the precise, euphonious prosewith which he is synonymous