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An Area of Darkness
by Naipaul, V. S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1965 First printing of the stated first American edition. Book in fine condition with minor issues; dust jacket with creasing/wear to edges (primarily upper front cover/spine), several vertical creases to flaps, spine, and folds, else fine.
Synopsis
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. -Publisher’s Website
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- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022498
- Title
- An Area of Darkness
- Author
- Naipaul, V. S
- Illustrator
- Roger Mayne (Author's Photo); Janet Halverson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PROSE, WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE, HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE, SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD, LLEWELLYN RYS MEMORIAL AWARD, AND THE PHOENIX TRUST AWARD.
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