Isbn: 9780394564784 - a way in the world (23 Ergebnisse)

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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. PRESENTABLE hard covered edition in a FULL DUST JACKET. Book is stamped on the inside cover page. The price has been cut off on the diagonal. The front cover has a mild forward lean. There are a few spots on the dust jacket. Slight scuff to the covers and page edge. USEFUL. …

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf May 1994 8vo. 380 pages.

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Caribbean British Colonialism).

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. As new. Minimal wear. Clean and unmarked. Minimal wear to DJ in mylar cover. ; 8.40 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 380 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Knopf, 1994. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Tear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. 8vo, 380 pages, clothbacked boards; dj flap creased An account of a Trinidadian revolutionary, illuminating the history of the Spanish and British occupations of the Caribbean. Naipaul was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001."Instead of diminishing life Naipaul ennobles it - Anthony Burgess.".…

Zustand: Good. Integrates examples of British and Spanish imperial history in the Caribbean with a study of the postcolonial experience to reveal the baffling complexities of human inheritance and identity. By the author of A Bend in the River. 35,000 first printing.; Boek goed, losse stofomslag redelijk.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. price-clipped. First edition. 8vo, 248 pages, clothbacked boards A novel set on a Caribbean island where everyone is a guerrilla. His first novel after winning The Booker Prize for Literature in 2001."Instead of diminishing life Naipaul ennobles it - Anthony Burgess.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 1996. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($23.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine, and faint offsetting on the interior.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. NY: Knopf, 1994. Copyright page states "First American Edition." SIGNED by the author on the first front interior page. This is an Advance Proof. Softcover book in fine condition. Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. viii, 380, [8] page. Illustrated endpapers. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by the author on the title page. In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul FRAS TC (17 August 1932 - 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and in 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honor. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. A Way in the World is a 1994 book by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. Although it was marketed as a novel in America, A Way in the World, which consists of linked narratives, is arguably something different. Despite his achievements as a novelist, in later life Naipaul has described the novel as an outmoded form. A Way in the World was published in the UK with the sub-title "sequence", and this is reflected in British reviews. In the USA it was published as a novel, apparently at the request of the American publisher. A Way in the World is more fictional than Naipaul's earlier historical work The Loss of El Dorado (1969), which deals with some of the same material, for example the lives of Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco de Miranda. Naipaul also includes autobiographical material, partly fictionalized, which was not in the earlier book. The book was short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. Derived from a Kirkus review: This work of "fiction" from Naipaul is really a label-defying tapestry of elements, a fascinating, closely woven blend of history, character study, and autobiography. Naipaul's wonderfully vivid, lyrical descriptions of Trinidad, his homeland, reflect a mind whose every experience seems to have been carefully captured in amber. The theme that repeats throughout is the shifting nature of reality as it is refracted through the eyes and thoughts of those who shaped Trinidadian and South American colonial history â" and those who fumble for identity in its aftermath. Naipaul struggles to imagine an earlier, aboriginal Trinidad that preceded the villages and sugar-cane fields and coconut estates of his childhood, attempting to grasp a sense of history that he never felt growing up in the voided legacy of colonialism. Naipaul dissects the dreams and the realities of Spanish and British imperialism, examining "impresarios of revolution" such as Venezuelan conqueror Francisco Miranda, whose New World visions included "fantasies of Incas worthy of Plato's republic, fantasies which (like Columbus's ideas about the New World, and Raleigh's) also contained a dream of a fabulous personal authority." By individualizing the colonial and postcolonial experience, Naipaul reveals its human roots: the restless search for identity, for a sense of completion, that drove conquerors and conquered alike â" that, as Naipaul tells us, drove him to become a writer. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Jerry Bauer (Author photograph) (illustrator). …