Sir Vidia’s Shadow by Paul Theroux (.ePUB)
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Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux
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Overview: This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux’s thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers’ careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.
- —Sir Vidia’s Shadow is a book that chronicles Paul Theroux’s long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty.
—’Both unputdownable and utterly engaging’ Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement
—’I started reading Theroux Sir Vidia’s Shadow, the story of his friendship with V.S. Naipaul over thirty years and five continents. I couldn’t, as they say, put it down. I don’t know of a more revealing study of the peculiar nature of friendship between professional writers, an unstable compound of empathy, solidarity and rivalry’ David Lodge, Guardian Books of the Year
—’Thoroughly compelling. We can call it a memoir, or a biographical sketch, but it has more in it – more candour, more intensity, more angry puzzlement – than we would normally expect from either of these genres’ Sunday Telegraph
Genre: Non Fiction | Autobiography | Memoir
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