Books by Patrick French
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English
review 1: Out of the many Socio/Economic/Historical writings on India that I have read, this books quite clearly stands out as one of the most brilliant. French's curious yet neutral analysis of India is categorized into three section Political/Economic/Social. But it isnt very distinctly ...
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English
review 1: V.S. Naipaul was an unpleasant man who led a fascinating literary life. Determined to be a writer he made use of his Trinidad birth, his Indian background and his life in England in stories and novels. This is a well-written biography that doesn't avoid its subject's shortcomin...
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English
review 1: How do you solve a problem like Naipaul? I’ll stop the Sound of Music references straight away; but this will be a difficult review to write. Naipaul is a Nobel laureate and is certainly one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Notably irascible and difficult to pin dow...