Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

By Paul Theroux | Category: Biographies and Memoirs books | DMCA

"Both unputdownable and utterly engaging". (Jonathan Raban, "The Times Literary Supplement"). "I started reading Theroux's "Sir Vidia's Shadow", the story of his friendship with V. S. Naipaul over thirty years and five continents - its origins, development, and sad, enigmatic termination. I couldn't, as they say, put it down. I don't know of a more revealing study of the peculiar nature of friends...

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0241950546
ISBN-13: 978-0241950548
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 16855831
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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The first point to note is that the veracity of this account has been seriously questioned. In French's authorized bio of Naipaul, what Theroux says took place at a party is denied by several of the participants. Some who Theroux claims were presen...

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