A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the
late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his
encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and
ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and
originality we expect from one of our best travel writers.
Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture
and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously
crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's
the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things'
Sunday Times 'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to
speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay,
of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times
Review of Books 'This is a journey below the Mason-Dixon line into
a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old
Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose
power is circumscribed . . . It is the best thing outside fiction
that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J.
Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday
Telegraph
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