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Loading... The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaulby Patrick French
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Amazing that this is an 'authorized' biography. Patrick French apparently had uncommon access to V. S. Naipaul and produced a fascinating portrait of a brilliant writer but seriously flawed human being. (  ) zenosbooks | Mar 19, 2009 |  This is an incisive and fascinating biography of one of the most important writers of our time. The level of intimate detail of the life of V. S. Naipaul is astonishing in this authorized study of this most complex man. Highly recommended reading! atelier | Feb 15, 2009 | "Honesty simplifies, but it also wounds and destroys," V. S. Naipaul, the subject of this outstanding literary biography, is quoted as observing. Naipaul's own brutal honesty in his life and work is sometimes hard to stomach, but French's fine exposition of Naipaul allows us to sympathize as well as to criticize. Well written, erudite, surprising, inspiring. (  ) Paulita | Jan 15, 2009 | The authorised, but apparently honest, biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning novelist from Chaguanas. (  ) Fledgist | Nov 16, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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