Travelling from Atlanta to Charleston, from Tallahassee to Tuskegee, from Jackson to Nashville and Chapel Hill, Naipaul covers the South of the US and finds a culture which he describes as consisting of order, faith, music and melancholy, both defined and burdened by a desperate past.
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Travelling from Atlanta to Charleston, from Tallahassee to Tuskegee, from Jackson to Nashville and Chapel Hill, Naipaul covers the South of the US and finds a culture which he describes as consisting of order, faith, music and melancholy, both defined and burdened by a desperate past.
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It had been a while since I had read Naipaul and I had forgotten just how good he was. One of the few writers in whose work one never senses "the resistance of the material." I do not know but what I prefer it to Paul Theroux's recent book on the same subject.