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V. S. Naipaul
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2001 | 1st American ed. | Knopf | 211 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
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Online OverDrive Collection
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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| 2009 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
Description
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2011 | Alfred A Knopf | xxiii, 409 p. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Main Library - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
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Online OverDrive Collection
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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| 2011 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
Description
For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.
Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among...
Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
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Fiction Naipaul
North - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2001. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International | 564 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Main Library - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul North - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 2
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 2
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mr. Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. When he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| 2002, c1971 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | vii, 247 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Richland Park - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul | |
| 1971 | [1st American ed.] | Knopf | 256 p. 22 cm. | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
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"In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves...
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 1982, c1981 | 1st Vintage Books ed. | Vintage Books | viii, 430 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction 297 N157a |
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Annex - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 1987. | 1st ed. | Knopf | 354 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Annex - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
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The story of a writer's singular journey from Trinidad to England and from one state of mind to another.
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Naipaul
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2002 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | 222 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul Richland Park - Adult Fiction Fiction Naipaul |
Description
Bogart the bigamist, B. Wordsworth the poet, and Morgan the pyrotechnist are among the poor inhabitants of Miguel Street seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy growing up in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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