The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
Language: English
Published by Vintage International / Random House, Inc., New York, New York, 2002
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- Softcover
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- Title
- The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S. (Author)
- Publisher
- Vintage International / Random House, Inc., New York, New York
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Used Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375708332
- ISBN 13
- 9780375708336
- Edition
- First Thus.
"The world's writer, a master of language and perception." --The New York Times Book Review
The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul's hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates' tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad--whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name--to a rooming house in London--where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.
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About the Author
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 died in 2018.
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