Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents"One year before he published his first book, Paul Theroux met V.S. Naipaul-Vidia, as he was known. For thirty years both men remained in close touch, even when continents separated them. Sir Vidia's Shadow is a double portrait of the writing life, but it is much more, for travel and reading and emotional ups and downs are also aspects of this friendship, which is powerful and enriching and often a comedy - and, ultimately, a bridge that is burned." "Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a very personal account of how one develops as a writer, how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life, and what constitutes the relationship of mentor and student." --Book Jacket. |
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Contents
1 Famous in Kampala | 3 |
2 Im Not Everyone | 17 |
3 The Kaptagat Arms | 44 |
4 On Safari in Rwanda | 72 |
The Writers Writer | 101 |
5 Christmas Pudding | 103 |
6 Excursion to Oxford | 130 |
A Correspondence Course | 144 |
11 The Householder | 219 |
12 My Friends Friend | 236 |
13 Death Is the Motif | 250 |
14 Tainted Vegetables | 264 |
15 Its Major | 280 |
Reversals | 295 |
16 Poetry of Departures | 297 |
17 A Wedding Is a Happy Funeral | 307 |
50 to Waterloo | 165 |
7 I Must Keep Some Secrets | 185 |
10 Lunch Party | 203 |
Sir Vidias Shadow | 217 |
18 Literature Is for the Wounded and the Damaged | 321 |
19 Exchanges | 337 |
20 Sir Vidias Shadow | 352 |
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