The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic

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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Vintage International)

V. S. Naipaulâ€™s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fictionâ€“two novels and a collection of storiesâ€“that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.
The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaulâ€™s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidatesâ€™ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidadâ€“whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese nameâ€“to a rooming house in Londonâ€“where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	V.S. Naipaul
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780307776525
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
NumberOfPages	544
PublicationDate	2010-10-20
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2010-10-20
Studio	Vintage

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Vintage International)

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