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　　"Naipaul's finest work so far." —Chicago Tribune
　　"An elegant memoir, a subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book World
　　"Far and away the most curious novel I've read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I've ever read." —St. Petersburg Times
　　"The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction—of dreams, of reality—is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." —Time
　　"V.S. Naipaul is a man who can inspire readers to follow him through the Slough of Despond and beyond.... Like a computer game [this book] leads the reader on by a series of clues, nearer and nearer to an understanding of the man and the writer. Few memoirs can claim as much." —Newsday --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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　　Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than anovel, the intricately structured chapters in this highlyautobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . waysof seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series ofevents, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire,circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up toOxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister's death: thesejourneys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detailrecaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuancedobservations of the natural world and his own interior landscape,he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitudeand paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testamentof a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment,alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness,vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that isboth an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. Hedemonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly hisneighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters ascatalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparinghimself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of hislife. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of acottager, the firing of an estate's gardener; with each account,the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, apowerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Sub*ionBook Club main selection.

<p>　　Discursive and ruminative, more like an extended essay than a
novel, the intricately structured chapters in this highly
autobiographical book reveal "the writer defined by his . . . ways
of seeing." Naipaul, in his own person, narrates a series of
events, beginning during a period of soul-healing in Wiltshire,
circling back to the day of his departure from Trinidad in 1950
when he was 18, describing his time in London before he went up to
Oxford, moving back to Trinidad after his sister's death: these
journeys are a metaphor for his life. With beautiful use of detail
recaptured from an extraordinary memory, with exquisitely nuanced
observations of the natural world and his own interior landscape,
he shows how experience is transmogrified after much incertitude
and paininto literature. This is a melancholy book, the testament
of a man who has stoically willed himself to endure disappointment,
alienation, change and grief. Naipaul lays bare the loneliness,
vulnerability and anxieties of his life, the sensibility that is
both an asset for the writer and a burden for the man. He
demonstrates this brilliantly by describing other peoplemainly his
neighbors in a village near Stonehenge. Using these characters as
catalysts, Naipaul peels back protective layers of memory, sparing
himself nothing, revealing the mistakes and inadequacies of his
life. The drama resides in small incidents: the death of a
cottager, the firing of an estate's gardener; with each account,
the narrative is spun more tightly into a seamless tapestry, a
powerful document by a master of his craft. Readers Sub*ion
Book Club main selection.<br />
　　Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.</p>

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作者简介

　　V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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