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A Turn in the South Hardcover - 1989

by V. S. Naipaul


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A Turn in the South is a travelogue of the American South written by Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul. His first book about the United States is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the hidden life and culture of the American South — from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. The book was published in 1989 and is based upon the author's travels in the southern states of the U.S..

From the publisher

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

First Edition Identification

Viking Press published a First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1989. The edition is bound in red boards with silver gilt. 


The Franklin Library published a First Edition, Limited Edition in Pennsylvania, 1989. The edition was bound in Full Leather, with gold-gilt cover illustrations and page edges, along with a bound-in silk bookmark. 


Alfred A. Knopf published the First US Edition, First Printing in New York, 1989.


Details

  • Title A Turn in the South
  • Author V. S. Naipaul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 307
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1989
  • ISBN 9780394564777 / 0394564774
  • Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Social life and customs -, Southern States - Civilization - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88045346
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.04
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