Mississauga, ON, Canada: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2002. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xv, 524pp. Fore edge rough cut. Red boards, brown cloth quarter-wrap spine w gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine. DJ clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover.

The finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage by V.S. Naipaul - nearly all of them heretofore out of print - are collected in one volume spanning some forty years of travel and sustained meditations on our world

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V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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Bookseller: Post Horizon Booksellers (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 043671
Title: The Writer and the World: Essays
Author: Naipaul, V. S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Canadian Edition
ISBN 10: 0676975194
ISBN 13: 9780676975192
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Place of Publication: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Date Published: 2002
Pages: 544
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 - Essays. NOISBN Essays
Bookseller catalogs: Essays;

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