Mr.Naipaul's Round Trip and Other Essays (Paperback)

The author, TGV to his friends and students, taught literature and film criticism, played first division cxricket and thought the world was his subject. This book collects some of his best writings on literature, culture, film and cricket. In his essays on literature and culture, he displays his remarkable ability to take an apperently insignificant fact and use it to highlight matters of wider cultural import. His essays on cricket are a riotous celebration of the game and its heroes as well as of the people he shared his love with. From dictionaries to umbrellas, to the stainless steel culture sweeping Madras, here is a truly eclectic selection of subjects, brilliant, eccentric, original and thought provoking, this book is certain to entertain and educate.