{"product_id":"the-world-is-what-it-is-the-authorized-biography-of-v-s-naipaul-9781400079803","title":"The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick French\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul' s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul's first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul's struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Naipaul's extraordinary gift--producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction--is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410477146263,"sku":"9781400079803","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781400079803.webp?v=1767312702","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-world-is-what-it-is-the-authorized-biography-of-v-s-naipaul-9781400079803","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}