The World Is What It Is The Authorized

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

Patrick French was born in England in 1966 and studied literature at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death and Tibet, Tibet, and is a winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.

From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction	p. ix

The New World	p. 3
In the Lion House	p. 14
"Like Oliver Twist in the Workhouse"	p. 29
To the Mother Country	p. 47
"De Portu Hispaniensi in Trinitatis Insula"	p. 66
"I Love You, My Dear Pat"	p. 89
To the Empty House	p. 107
"They Want Me to Know My Place"	p. 125
"Something Rich Like Chocolate"	p. 140
Back to the New World	p. 160
"He Asked for IO Gns!!"	p. 178
"There Wasn't Any Kind Remark"	p. 192

The Homecoming	p. 213
"Lovely Vogue, Just Bought"	p. 230
The Schintsky Method	p. 251
The World	p. 270
"With the Aid of a Cutlass Blade"	p. 295
Margarita	p. 305
England and Argentina	p. 323
The Marriage of Mandrax and Valium	p. 343
"I Want to Win and Win and Win"	p. 360
A House for Mr. Naipaul	p. 382
"Undoing My Semi-Colons"	p. 411
Arise, Sir Vidia	p. 435
The Second Lady Naipaul	p. 461
Acknowledgements	p. 489
Notes	p. 491
Index	p. 533#########
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The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

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