Naipaul as Hatchet Man

5th November 2007 with 0 Comments

Sanjay Subrahmanyam on a new book of essays by VS Naipaul: A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
. . . Naipaul began his writing career in England after getting a degree from Oxford (where he had been sent on a scholarship from Trinidad in 1950). In 1957, Naipaul was befriended by Anthony Powell, [...]

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