A Way in the World

Naipaul, V. S.

ISBN 10: 0394564782 / ISBN 13: 9780394564784

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1994, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1994

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Fine Slipcase. First Edition, First Printing. ISBN:0394564782. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First Edition, Fine in white wrappers with raised lettering and a matching card slipcase, SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Seller Inventory # 010456

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Way in the World

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1994, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Slipcase

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

Book Type: Book

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)