The Writer and the World: Essays
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375407391
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407390
- Seller
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Helena, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition stated, near fien in like jacket with both showing just the mildest bit of trace wear. 524 pages. Attractive copy of this volume that collects Naipaul's "..finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them heretofore out of print..
Synopsis
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
- Barker Books & Vintage (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14218
- Title
- The Writer and the World: Essays
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375407391
- ISBN 13
- 9780375407390
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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