TY - BOOK AU - Dooley, Gillian, TI - V.S. Naipaul, man and writer SN - 1570035873 (alk. paper) AV - PR9272.9.N32 Z665 2006 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2006/// CY - Columbia PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Naipaul, V. S. N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index; "Apprentice pieces": Miguel Street, The mystic masseur, and The suffrage of Elvira -- Fiction versus nonfiction : a house for Mr Biswas -- The journeys begin: The Middle Passage, An area of darkness, and The loss of El Dorado -- Branching out: Mr Stone and the knights companion, The mimic men, and A flag on the island -- Finding the correct form: In a free state -- Sex and violence: Guerrillas and A bend in the river -- Investigations abroad: middle-period nonfiction -- A definition of the writing self: The enigma of arrival -- Capturing the reality: later travel books -- Three novels: A way in the world, Half a life, and Magic seeds UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005035538.html ER -