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A Turn in the South

English

By (author): V. S. Naipaul

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South.

Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country.

Naipauls writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, theres the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things Sunday Times

Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear New York Times Review of Books

This is a journey below the MasonDixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . . . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cashs The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago Sunday Telegraph

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Product Details
  • Weight: 222g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jun 2011
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780330522946

About V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College Oxford and began to write in London in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas The Mimic Men Guerrillas A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction equally acclaimed include Among the Believers Beyond Belief The Masque of Africa and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.In 1990 V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993 he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire and died in 2018.

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