A Bend in the River.

NAIPAUL, V.S.

Item Number: 2207

London: Andre Deutsch, 1979.

First edition. Octavo, original green cloth. Historian Antonia Fraser’s copy with with her name and date of September 27, 1979 on the front free endpaper. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fraser was the wife of the late Nobel Prize-winning author Harld Pinter. Fraser writes in her memoir of her relationship with Naipaul, “Vidia and Pat to lunch. A great success. I see how much Vidia and Harold have in common: they discuss anger like one might discuss a taste for port.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

In response to this novel, John Updike praised, "Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for understanding social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit." It is listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.