The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography Of Vs Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this enigmatic genius. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, into an Indian family. French examines early privations, naipaul`s life within a displaced community and his talent and fierce ambition at school, which won him a scholarship to Oxford at tha age of seventeen. he describes how, once in England, homesickness and depression struck with great force, and the ways in which Naipaul, supported by his first wife, overcame his `double exile` culminating in the production of early masterpieces such as A House for Mr Biswas, An Area of Darkness and In a Free State.