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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages

Size: 0x0x0; 1st printing of 1st trade edition (a signed limited first edition preceded this printing). Good+ hardcover with good DJ, NOT ex-library. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Interior appears free of markings. Edges have age-toning, foxing to edges of text block, light shelfwear. Price-clipped dust jacket has small tears along edges, now protected in Mylar wraps. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unread book in perfect condition.

Size: 5x0x7; Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling in England, Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by critics as unsympathetic, misguided, racist, and sexist. Yet other readers praise his work as containing uncommonly perceptive historical and psychological insight.In V. S. Naipauls Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan offers new perspectives on the distinctiveness and power of Naipauls writing, as well as his shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipauls life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have dominated discussions of his writing. Krishnan reads Naipaul as self-subverting and self-critical, engaged in describing his own implication in what he saw as the malaise of the postcolonial world. Krishnan brings together close readings of major novels with considerations of Naipauls work as a united project, as well as nuanced assessments of Naipauls political commentary on ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Krishnan provides a Naipaul for contemporary times, illustrating how his life and work shed light on debates regarding migration, diversity, sectarianism, displacement, and other global challenges. 1.8415

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

8vo. original blue boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, faint leaf edge speckling; upper panel of dustwrapper tipped to verso FFE) pp. xxviii, 522 (last blank), [2 (pubs. advts. )], with illustrations & endpaper map. A very good copy.