{"product_id":"literary-occasions-essays-9781400031306","title":"Literary Occasions: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eEleven essays on reading, writing, and identity--which have been brought together for the first time--from the Nobel Prize-winning author. - \"He brings to [nonfiction] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought.... I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul's writing.\" --Vivian Gornick, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, \"Two Worlds,\" traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400031306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2004 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44431876522165,"sku":"9781400031306","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e436a631-7ef0-4fd0-b500-9435266f2125.jpg?v=1721138628","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/literary-occasions-essays-9781400031306","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}