Volume 26, Number 9 · May 31, 1979
Bankruptcy and Revolt
By John Thompson
A Bend in the River
by V.S. Naipaul
Knopf, 288 pp., $8.95
V.S. Naipaul's special haunts are the mud flats or the drear and naked shingle left by the ebbed British Empire, 'a life as grim as a tidal rock pool's,' in Auden's phrase about places another recession had exposed. The Caribbean, India, Africa: people there are not very nice to those beached among them, or to visitors, or to one another.
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