A Way in the World
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage International
Published: June 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780679761662
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction
Description: Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V. S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover.