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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
November 1, 1998
Pages
358
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780395907283
ISBN-10
0395907284
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$25.00
§As reported by publisher
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Riding the Iron Rooster | My Secret History | The Happy Isles of Oceania | Deep South | A House for Mr. Biswas | Collected Short Fiction | The Imperial Way/08972 | The Great Railway Bazaar | Beyond Belief
Riding the Iron Rooster | My Secret History | The Happy Isles of Oceania | Deep South | A House for Mr. Biswas | Collected Short Fiction | The Imperial Way/08972 | The Great Railway Bazaar | Beyond Belief
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V. S. Naipaul. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
(view table of contents)Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is an intimate portrait of a friendship, its beginning, middle, and end. And it describes that rarest and most fragile of alliances, a literary friendship. One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V. S. Naipaul--Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separated them. Sir Vidia's Shadow is a double portrait of the writing life, but it is much more, for travel and reading and emotional ups and downs are also aspects of this friendship, which is powerful and enriching and often a comedy--and, ultimately, a bridge that is burned. The two writers' paths crossed in 1966 in Uganda, which Naipaul saw as a dangerous jungle and Theroux regarded as a benign home. Theroux became Naipaul's driver, interpreter, and apprentice--he was twenty-three and Naipaul thirty-four. Theroux was guided by the older writer, but as the years passed their positions were frequently reversed, as Naipaul sought Theroux's guidance and advice. They became each other's editors, confidants, and teachers. From Singapore to London, India to South America, the United States and back to Africa, the writers corresponded and crossed paths. Naipaul's brother, Shiva, is part of the story, and so is Margaret, Naipaul's Anglo-Argentine companion. A formidable and intensely private figure, who was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is often cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize, Naipaul was close to few others except his first and second wives and Theroux himself. Naipaul was the first to read and champion Theroux's earliest efforts. Over time, they witnessed each other's successes and failures. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a very personal account of how one develops as a writer, how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life, and what constitutes the relationship of mentor and student. Told with Theroux's impeccable eye for place and setting and his novelistic instinct for character and incident, Sir Vidia's Shadow recalls Nicholson Baker's U and I: A True Story, Rainer Maria Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet, and Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it is nearly without precedent in anatomizing the nature of writing as well as the nature of friendship itself.
Editions
Hardcover
from McClelland & Stewart Ltd (November 1, 1998)
9780771085062 | details & prices | List price $32.99
About: This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V.
About: This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Houghton Mifflin (November 1, 1998)
9780395907283 | details & prices | 358 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
About: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
Paperback
from Mariner Books (January 8, 2001)
9780618001996 | details & prices | 364 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $22.95
About: In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
About: In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With David Birney (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Dove Entertainment Inc (November 1, 1998)
9780787118143 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
About: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.
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