Andrew Blackman
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A lot has been made of how frank this biography is. It’s certainly true that V.S. Naipaul gave his biographer Patrick French access to a huge amount of material, including things that other people would have tried to keep quiet about. For example the racism, the bigotry, the use of prostitutes, the affairs, the [...]
In the final part of this series of posts, I’m reviewing stories by Mavis Gallant, V.S. Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hal Porter and Chinua Achebe.
Mavis Gallant (Canada) – Orphans’ Progress
According to the introduction, Gallant’s work mostly deals with broken families, and this is no exception: two girls are taken into care because [...]
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