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The World Is What It Is

The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

Paperback (08 Feb 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Researched with the full cooperation of its subject, this biography begins with Naipaul's upbringing in Trinidad, describes how his ambition took him to England, and looks at the factors that have made Naipaul one of the leading writers of his generation.

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Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781509891856
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 576
Weight: -1g
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm