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V.S. Naipaul  
Author: Bruce King
ISBN: 1403904553
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Review
Praise for the first edition:
"The introduction to this volume is perhaps the best 15-page essay on Naipaul and his art; and the subsequent eight chapters are written with the authority that King is known to possess on post-colonial literature and in a style that is both crisp and admirably textured. . . . No beginning student should fail to read this work: no scholar will want to miss it."--Choice



Review
Praise for the first edition:
"The introduction to this volume is perhaps the best 15-page essay on Naipaul and his art; and the subsequent eight chapters are written with the authority that King is known to possess on post-colonial literature and in a style that is both crisp and admirably textured. . . . No beginning student should fail to read this work: no scholar will want to miss it."--Choice



Book Description
This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul will be of interest to students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the texts in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts. New chapters in the second edition include an expanded biographical introduction, and discussion of the recent novels A Way in the World and Half a Life, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and the criticism of Naipaul by writers and post-colonial theorists.



About the Author
Bruce King is a freelance writer and a leading international literary critic and is series editor for English Dramatists and Modern Dramatists (both Palgrave Macmillan).





V.S. Naipaul

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul will be of interest to students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the texts in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts. New chapters in the second edition include an expanded biographical introduction, and discussion of the recent novels A Way in the World and Half a Life, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and the criticism of Naipaul by writers and post-colonial theorists.

     



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