A Bend in the River by Naipaul, V. S. (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) - 1979

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394505735 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some slight scuffing to a patch of the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has toning to the spine and spine joints. "August 1932 – 11 August 2018) , commonly known as V. S. Naipaul and, familiarly, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad and Tobago–born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel A House for Mr Biswas was published in 1961. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1983, and in 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. " (from Wikipedia) .