The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book

V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction two novels and a collection of stories. The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul's hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates' tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr Stone and the Knights Companion is an ageing Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and an unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.

ISBN 0330523708   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780330523707 (What's this?)   Pages 560 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Picador   Height (mm) 197 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 130 Publication date 07 Oct 2011   Academic level General DEWEY 823.914

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