Sir Vidia's Shadow. A Friendship Across Five Continents

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 375 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers 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 in 1967, Paul Theroux met the acclaimed writer V S Naipaul - Vidia, as he was known. Initially Theroux was guided by the older writer, but as the years passed their positions were frequently reversed and they became each others editors, confidants and teachers. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, strange, humorous, and melancholy, and thirty years of mutual history, this is a very personal account told with Therouxs impeccable eye for place and setting.

ISBN: 9780241140468