Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, "Sir Vidia's Shadow" is a very personal account of how one develops as a writer, how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men--Theroux and V.S. Naipaul--who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life, and what constitutes the relationship of mentor and student. Abridged. Available now.
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Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, "Sir Vidia's Shadow" is a very personal account of how one develops as a writer, how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men--Theroux and V.S. Naipaul--who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life, and what constitutes the relationship of mentor and student. Abridged. Available now.
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