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Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover
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A Way in the World, V. S. Naipaul
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- Released
- 1995
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
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- Title
- A Way in the World
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- V. S. Naipaul
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0679761667
- ISBN13
- 9780679761662
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- 20th century, Africa, Nobel prize
- Original title
- A way in the world
- Rating
- 2.65 out of 5
- Description
- Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover