V.S.NAIPAUL
作者: Naipaul
出版社:经济日报 2003年01月
简介:
"A Turn in the South" is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaulin the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of hisencounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinarymen and women, both black and white, with the insight andoriginality we expect from one of our best travel writers.Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, cultureand country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulouslycrafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there'sthe freshness and originality of his way of looking at things ...afine book by a fine man, and one to be read with great enjoyment: abook of style, sagacity and wit' - "Sunday Times". 'A tissue ofbrilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with aremarkable ear' - "New York Times Review of Books".