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Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
V. S. Naipaul
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Description for Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
Paperback. 'V.S. Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 36. Weight in Grams: 446.
With a preface by the author.
V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction – two novels and a collection of stories – that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour.
The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr Stone and the Knights Companion is an ageing Englishman ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330523707
SKU
V9780330523707
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99-50
About V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma ... Read more
Reviews for Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions
As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.
New York Review of Books
V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.
Kingsley Amis
Spectator
New York Review of Books
V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.
Kingsley Amis
Spectator