A Turn in the South - Softcover

V S Naipaul

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ISBN 10: 0330487183 ISBN 13: 9780330487184

Publisher: Picador, 2003

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A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country.

`Naipaul`s writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there`s the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things... a fine book by a fine man, and one to be read with great enjoyment: a book of style, sagacity and wit` Sunday Times

`A tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear` New York Times Review of Books

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"Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways...fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic

"His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly

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In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.

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