Book summaryThis volume of short stories, most of them set in Naipaul's native Trinidad, was published in 1967. Media reviews"From MIGUEL STREET to THE MIMIC MEN, [Naipaul] has given us a series of novels which re-creates the life of Trinidad, and his own participation in it, very thoroughly; too thoroughly, by this time; the pasture is seriously overcropped. A FLAG ON THE ISLAND is the lead story of a collection, some of which hardly merited reprinting; though, to be fair, one or two are brilliant....But it is the title story that must concern us, a sharp yet sentimental fable on the theme of a social and cultural change within a small community, and the strange things it does to individual lives....[It] is an interesting fragment rather than a finished work: it is half-imagined and half-presented, having ceased to be cinema without becoming literature, and such interest as it has is interest we might get from looking into the author's working notebooks. But of course, with a writer as original and perceptive as Mr. Naipaul, that interest is considerable." |
A Flag on the Islandby Naipaul, V. S
Book desription: Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1981 Shelf wear and rubbing. Small abrasion and part of a price sticker on rear cover. Tanning to pages. 213 pages. From book ".....a middle-aged American accidentally revisits the Caribbean island where he spent the war as a go-getting, girl-getting, GI.....But after twenty years, the island has become a five-star calypso paradise....and Frankie's erstwhile victims are more than ready for his unexpected return.". . Soft Cover. Very Good.
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