The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul-Fast Shipping

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The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobellaureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuitof which goal nothing else was sacred.

Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, whereNaipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describeshow, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force;the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraughtmarriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England,including his twenty-five-year-long affair.

Naipaul’s extraordinary gift—producing,uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful,visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastatinginsight.