Sir Vidia's Shadow

A Friendship Across Five Continents

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Paul Theroux ISBN: 9780547526195
Publisher: HMH Books Publication: February 11, 2014
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780547526195
Publisher: HMH Books
Publication: February 11, 2014
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.

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This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.

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