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        <dc:title>The nightwatchman's occurrence book: and other comic inventions</dc:title>
        <dc:creator opf:file-as="Naipaul, V. S." opf:role="aut">V. S. Naipaul</dc:creator>
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        <dc:date>2002-12-15T04:35:36.974000+00:00</dc:date>
        <dc:description>&lt;h3&gt;Review&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;?V. S. Naipaul is the world?s writer, a master of language and perception.? ?_The New York Times Book Review_  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;?As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.? ?_The New York Review of Books_  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;?V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer. . . . This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.? ?Kingsley Amis, &lt;em&gt;The Spectator&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;em&gt;Review&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Product Description&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction–two novels and a collection of stories–that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Suffrage of Elvira &lt;/em&gt;is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of &lt;em&gt;Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion&lt;/em&gt; is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in &lt;em&gt;A Flag on the Island&lt;/em&gt; take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad–whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name–to a rooming house in London–where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.&lt;br /&gt;_&lt;br /&gt;_&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>Vintage International</dc:publisher>
        <dc:identifier opf:scheme="ISBN">9780375708336</dc:identifier>
        <dc:language>en</dc:language>
        <dc:subject>Fiction</dc:subject>
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