Volume 17, Number 11 · December 30, 1971
Displaced Person
By Alfred Kazin
In a Free State
by V.S. Naipaul
Knopf, 256 pp., $5.95
This is an extraordinarily penetrating book and a disturbing one. One could well praise the original and powerful novelist behind it by describing the reason for the disturbance—nor would this minimize the disturbance in the least.
Review, 1808 words
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