Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660afff8d86edfd7 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. ISBN 13: 9780394564777. In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. From the Trade Paperback edition. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South. Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways. fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic. "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance. No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly. A Turn in the South. Kijk voor 'A Turn in the South' bij de volgende boekwinkels: A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things' Sunday Times 'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times Review of Books 'This is a journey below the Mason-Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday Telegraph. ISBN 13: 9780330522946. A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things' Sunday Times 'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times Review of Books 'This is a journey below the Mason Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday Telegraph. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South. Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways. fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance. No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly. A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul. Franklin Library: $10.51. Signed TWO Times,Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Full Leather Hardcover by The Franklin Library. Note: TheSave Africa Nowlogo that appears on thephotoof the title page doesNOTappear on the book. A Turn in the South. (August 17, 1931 - August 11, 2018) Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include Mystic Masseur (1957), for which he won the John Llewelln Rys Memorial Prize; The Suffrage of Elvira (1958);Miguel Street (1959), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award;A House for Mr. Biswas, (1961); Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion (1963);The Mimic Men,(1967); A Flag on the Island (1967);In a Free State(1971), forwhichhe was awarded the Booker Bend in the River(1979);The Enigma of Arrival(1987);A Way in the World(1994);Half a Life(2001); andMagic Seeds(2004). His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies: British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962);An Area of Darkness(1964); The Loss of El Dorado (1969);The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles(1972);India: A Wounded Civilization (1977); A Congo Diary (1980);The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad(1980);Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1980); Finding the Centre: Two Narratives (1984);A Turn in the South (1989);India: A Million Mutinies NowBeyond Belief(1990); Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998);Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999); Reading & Writing: A Personal Account (2000);TheWriter and the World: Essays (2002); A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007); andThe Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010).In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. A Turn in the South was published in the U.S. in January 1989. First Edition, First Printing, The Franklin Library, handSIGNED, in my presence,to full title page. The other signature is signed on a specially bound blank page (see photo 2) by The Franklin Library. No inscription; two full signatures only. From an event featuring V. S. Naipaul at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on October 18, 2010. BONUS: Includes a letter regarding A Turn in the South by the publisher of the Signed First Edition Society. Please only offer if you will pay withinfive days of sale's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. If requested, there is a $1.00surchargefor all domestic orders below $25 shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is$4.49 (includesUSPS Tracking). 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In A Turn in the South, parts of which orginally appeared in the New Yorker, noted essayist and novelist Naipaul travels the American South in an attempt to explore and explain this unique region. Stopping at places as diverse as Atlanta and rural Mississippi, Naipaul develops contacts and sources which span race, class, and sex. He admits that at the start of his journey he had no central theme.