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A Turn in the South

Part of Vintage International

Author V. S. Naipaul
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$18.00 US
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Feb 19, 1990 | 320 Pages | 9780679724889
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Naipaul's first book about the United States provides a revealing, disturbing look at the American South—a part of the world that remains a world unto itself.

"Astute and penetrating . . . brings new understanding of the subject." —C. Vann Woodward, The New York Times Book Review

"No American writer could achieve this kind of evenhandedness." —The Atlantic
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 of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018. View titles by V. S. Naipaul

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Naipaul's first book about the United States provides a revealing, disturbing look at the American South—a part of the world that remains a world unto itself.

"Astute and penetrating . . . brings new understanding of the subject." —C. Vann Woodward, The New York Times Book Review

"No American writer could achieve this kind of evenhandedness." —The Atlantic

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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 of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018. View titles by V. S. Naipaul

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