The overcrowded barracoon, and other articles,

By V.S. Naipaul

Book Overview

Drawn together by a single theme - the culture and politics of the "barracoon" - V.S. Naipaul collection of essays touches on subjects as diverse as Indian society, John Steinbeck, the origins of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0233963731
• ISBN13: 9780233963730
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Ser
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wide ranging, and classic Naipaul

In this wide ranging series of essays, Naipaul tackles everything from John Steinbeck to Mauritius, the art of writing, to the game of politics. We get here an excellent cross section of Naipaul in the early to middle part of his career: you can sense the extrordinary anger of the early years, and feel the cool off toward a more detached, clinical despair that marks so much of his late fiction and non-fiction work.