num_pages: 368
description: This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life.
language: English
title: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
titlecomplete: Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
genres: Biography, Africa, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 731
publisher: Mariner Books