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A Turn in the South - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author Edition: First Edition; First Printing Size: 8vo Publisher: Viking, 1989, London ISBN: 0670824151 [Book #14591] An attractive First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition with slightly yellowed pages in Fine dustjacket, SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the title page; Naipaul travels the American South in an attempt to explore and explain this unique region. In places as diverse as Atlanta and rural Mississippi, he develops contacts and sources which span race, class, and sex. The South seems infinitely varied in outlook and attitude, vaguely unified only by a common past that tends to emphasize a sense of order, reverence for "the land," and intense religious faith
Price: $280.00
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Naipaul, V.S.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V.S." Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, August 17, 1932. In 1971, Naipaul became the first person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize for his book In a Free State. Naipaul was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Award Info |