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Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - "Guerrillas" is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an English woman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the "revolution", they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. "Guerrillas" depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. Place and people are evoked with an intensity unrivalled elsewhere. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. 'Impeccable prose, precise, austere, modulating always from place to people to dialogue with a fastidious reserve. "Guerrillas" seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' - "Observer".
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“A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.” — John Updike
“Naipaul is a master of English prose.” — J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books
“V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer.... This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.” — Kingsley Amis, The Spectator
“Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” — Evelyn Waugh
“For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” — The New York Times Book Review
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A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.
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Guerrillas
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. First Edition. Vintage Paperback, Ballantine 25296: Trinidad-born, Nobel Prize-winning British author, Naipaul, wrote this bleak novel of political corruption, terrorism and revolution in the Caribbean, a story that has been compared to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," after covering the murder trial of black revolutionary, Michael X, in Trinidad in 1972. The character, Jimmy Ahmed, in "Guerrillas," is believed to be modeled after Michael X. Mass Market Paperback, First Printing, First Edition Thus. 292 pages, with 4 pages of publisher's ads. Grey wrappers with green lettering featuring small pictorial illustration of woman and reptile. Wrappers show reading crease on spine, other very minor surface and edge wear. No significant tears, chipping or bumping. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. A collectable copy of an important Naipaul work. Seller Inventory # 005419
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback. 292 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ballantine Books, USA, 1976. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Tanned pages. Reading creases to spine. Edgewear to covers. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the 'revolution', they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0345252969. ISBN/EAN: 9780345252968. Inventory No: 12101095. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 12101095
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