A Way in the World (First Edition)

V.S. Naipaul

ISBN 10: 0394564782 / ISBN 13: 9780394564784

Published by Knopf, New York, 1994

About this Item

New York: Knopf (1994). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Slight spine slant. Published in the United States as a novel, this book was issued in the United Kingdom with the subtitle "A Sequence," reflecting Naipaul's preference not to classify it as a novel. The work blends fictional, autobiographical, and historical material in a series of interlinked narratives. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. F4400.

Seller Inventory # LW-1115

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Way in the World (First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394564782
• ISBN 13: 9780394564784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Integrates examples of British and Spanish imperial history in the Caribbean with a study of the postcolonial experience to reveal the baffling complexities of human inheritance and identity. By the author of A Bend in the River. 35,000 first printing.

Review

"There is not a page that is not stamped with Naipaul's compelling charm and peculiar authority...he retains, somehow or other, a sense of wonder at the varieties of human experience and the infinite vagaries of human behaviour" (Scotsman)

"One of literature's senior players, a writer whose work - nimble in defence, formidable in attack - is impossible to dismiss... it is the seriousness and delicacy of his concerns that capture and keep our attention. Wherever he has been - which is almost everywhere - he has stalked the anxieties and vanities of post-colonial life with fantastic zeal and subtlety." (Independent)

"The language is marvellously sculpted" (Economist)