An Area of Darkness
de Naipaul, V. S
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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New York: Macmillan, 1965. hb. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 281 pp. Stated first American edition. Map endpapers. No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show some spotting, spine sunned, 1/8" tear top of spine. A good reading copy. Book condition Good+.
Sinopsis
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. -Publisher’s Website
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- Librería
- Parker's Rare Books
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- DE5163
- Título
- An Area of Darkness
- Autor
- Naipaul, V. S
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- Hb
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel;
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
