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Overcrowded Barracoon [Paperback]

V.S. Naipaul (Author)

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Paperback: 286 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (May 12, 1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394722078
ISBN-13: 978-0394722078
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wide ranging, and classic Naipaul, August 10, 2005

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In this wide ranging series of essays, Naipaul tackles everything from John Steinbeck to Mauritius, the art of writing, to the game of politics. We get here an excellent cross section of Naipaul in the early to middle part of his career: you can sense the extrordinary anger of the early years, and feel the cool off toward a more detached, clinical despair that marks so much of his late fiction and non-fiction work.

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